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This site is no longer active. Please go to edwardlucas.com/blog instead Regards Edward...
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Sorry for the long gap in posting material on this blog. I have been busy launching an Economist blog called Eastern ApproachesThis site has been redesigned and will be relaunched shortly at www.edwardlucas.com...
the rise of English (book review_
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The rise and rise of English Top dogMay 27th 2010 From The Economist print editionGlobish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language. By Robert McCrum. W.W. Norton; 310 pages; $26.95. Viking; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukENGLIS...
Iceland
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Life in Iceland Nasty, brutish and shortMay 27th 2010 From The Economist print editionWasteland With Words: A Social History of Iceland. By Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson. Reaktion Books; 288 pages; $39.95 and £25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukFILTHY,...
More jokes, please
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Explosive humourMay 27th 2010, 13:03 by E.L. | LONDONJOKES helped make communism collapse. “Anekdoty” as they were termed, helped dispel the climate of fear and highlighted the backwardness and stagnation that were the hallmark of central plannin...
Slovakia Hungary
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(a quick blog posting from today)Pandora's passportsMay 27th 2010, 13:50 by E.L. | LONDONIN SOME parts of the world, having two or even three passports is nothing unusual. Plenty of people in Ireland (north and south) have both British and Irish pas...
Europe view no 184
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Europe.viewAn unfinished revolutionPublic life in the ex-communist world is again run by a well-connected elite. But things may be starting to changeMay 19th 2010 | From The Economist onlineThe Europe.view column will henceforth appear as a weekly po...
Important announcement
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I have also been made International Editor, starting in September. However I will continue to write on the east European region for the print edition of the Economist, as well as running a new blog called Eastern Approaches.I am delighted to receive...
Estonia after the Euro
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Just in case anyone is interested, here is a video of me and Toomas Hendrik Ilves discussing Estonia after the euro. Part two is here and part three here ...
Battle of Britain book review
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Britain and the second world warBoys in blueMay 13th 2010From The Economist print editionThe Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May-October 1940. By James Holland. Bantam Press; 677 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.ukEVERY country’...
new rachman novel
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New fictionInky fingersMay 13th 2010From The Economist print editionThe Imperfectionists. By Tom Rachman. Dial Press; 272 pages; $25. Quercus; £16.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukFOR younger readers, stories about newspapers in their heyday may...
Estonia and the Euro
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(from the Economist print edition)The Baltic states Euro not bustMay 13th 2010From The Economist print editionEstonia gets a green light to join the euro. Other Baltic states will benefit tooSURPRISES are Estonia’s stock in trade. Its return to th...
Europe view: Greece viewed from the region
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Europe.viewDefault, and other dogmasMay 13th 2010From Economist.comThe experience of ex-communist countries in the 1990s undermines many of the claims now made about GreeceFOR anyone from the ex-communist world with a medium-term memory, the frantic...
Euro latest
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Estonia and the euro Long eurosMay 12th 2010From Economist.comEstonia gets a step closer to adopting the single currencySURPRISES are Estonia’s stock in trade. Its return to the world map in 1991 after a 51-year absence startled outsiders. So did...
My election take
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A welcome uncertainty, a shameful chaos. That is what Britain woke up to after the strangest election night in living memory. The chaos is as simple to describe as it is hard to justify. Thousands of people waited in vain to vote but couldn’t bec...
Apple and Yalta
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Cupertino's cold warriorsMay 6th 2010From Economist.comWhat has Apple got against eastern Europe?WHAT have the following places got in common?America, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Hong Kong,...
Greece and its neighbours
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Greece's woes and the neighbours Greased upMay 6th 2010From The Economist print editionThe region may share in some of Greece’s painAVERTING a meltdown in Greece, at least temporarily, is good news for that country’s fragile ex-communist neighbo...
Long piece on power and history
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Report No. 30: Putin, Power and History: Does the Past Still Matter?Posted Date: 3 May 2010Following last month’s joint Polish-Russian memorials to commemorate the Katyń massacre, and the outpouring of Russian sympathy since the plane crash that k...
Diary Lemberg-Tallinn
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Journeying in eastern Europe Planes, trains and extortionate taxisApr 26th 2010From Economist.comDay oneIT IS never a waste of time to visit the capital of Galicia, which in Latin is called Leopolis (literally, Lion City). But you can waste a lot of...
Norman Stone book review
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he cold warFeel of historyApr 29th 2010From The Economist print editionThe Norman Stone storyThe Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War. By Norman Stone. Basic Books; 668 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. IMAGINE that you are invited to lun...
