Today is my first full day back from a four day trip to Berlin. I departed Saturday and returned yesterday (Tuesday ( Read more... )

I never did finish up my Poland trip, so here goes.

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As part of my continued updating of the Wikipedia shock therapy article, I had to go into the West German economic reforms of 1948, as they were a large part of the inspiration for Bolivia (where the term shock therapy was coined). This meant providing background on the economic turmoil following WWII and the reasons for why the West German ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the Eurovision Song Contest. Yey ( Read more... )

(I grabbed the title from a Kraftwerk track, it seemed appropriate to the title of the post. I only hope it means what I think it means ( Read more... )

My dad has been invited to speak at a conference in Poland about Liberalism and his experience of it in the local council and as part of the Liberal Democrats. He's decided that he'd much rather drive to Poland and, as I want to get some motorway experience, I'd quite like to oblige. Also, dad has promised that, this time, we'd take it slower, ( Read more... )