Reuters: Malta suffers second nationwide power cut in a month

Human beings, so used to ‘the customer is always right,’ are now to be bled from every angle and then treated as  costs to be cut rather than assets to be cosseted. Read here  

This is the political culture that the Social Democrats created in the EU, not that any of the other centrist parties are much different. Read here Harmony has been the biggest party in Latvia’s parliament […]

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here