Argentina, where Milei is proving to be the greatest statesman in the democratic world, certainly since Mrs Thatcher whom he greatly admires and maybe ever. Who'd have thought that appointing someone… (View Post)

Buy a fan. They are cheap, don't use much energy, don't dry the air out, unlike aircon, and at the "heatwave" temps in this country are adequate unless you're living in a greenhouse. Also t… (View Post)

I went to Uzbekistan a few years back and really enjoyed it. I don't know what your attention span is like, but I'd say both Samarkand and Bokhara are worth another day - Khiva less so. I found the f… (View Post)

The EU already has something sort of like that with its Association Agreements, e.g. with Georgia. They could doubtless be developed further, but of course the EU would be very reluctant to allow cou… (View Post)

I've just come back from ten days in Montenegro. Apart from being marred by various small frustrations like cheating taxi drivers and triple digit temperatures in Podogrica, it was an improbably fasc… (View Post)