TIMOTHY SNYDER ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
The Financial Time has a brilliant Lunch with the FT interview with Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian whose "Making of Modern Ukraine"...
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Philip Ammerman
Jan 6, 2023
Heavy Metal
Bloomberg Law sent samples of baby food distributed in the United States to chemical laboratories for testing. The results? Baby food in...
Philip Ammerman
Nov 9, 2022
COMPLETELY OUT OF TOUCH?
I'm surprised at the arrogance shown by Bloomberg’s Editors to call the Democratic Party “out of touch” in its 8 November editorial. ...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 20, 2022
THE POLITICS OF FAILURE
Like many others, I’ve been watching the UK Gov meltdown with astonishment. Part of this is a sourcing issue: 3 of 9 mainstream media I...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 21, 2022
Russian Mobilisation
Today President Putin announced a partial call-up of 300,000 reservists, and repeated his threat on the use of nuclear weapons. I have...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 8, 2022
Using examples of democracy to … condemn democracy
Matthew Karnitschnig published a logically absurd article in Politico on September 8th. Entitled “Putin's attack on democracy is working....
Philip Ammerman
Aug 31, 2022
Remembering Courage
I have been reading obituaries marketing the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of 91. Let me begin this post by...
Philip Ammerman
Aug 20, 2022
Karma Debt
I’m sitting here at Costa Coffee on a Saturday morning, hard at work. The place is absolutely full of beautiful young people. Sometimes...
Philip Ammerman
May 9, 2022
Josep Borrell's $ 300 billion Good Idea
Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 22, 2022
€20 per day
Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 20, 2022
Ukraine Day 25
Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 11, 2022
11 March 2022
A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 2, 2022
HOW THIS ENDS
Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....
Philip Ammerman
Feb 26, 2022
FIGHTING IN SEVERODONETSK
I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...
Philip Ammerman
Feb 25, 2022
THE INVASION OF UKRAINE
Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...
Philip Ammerman
Jan 7, 2022
GET LULU TO CALL ME
Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...
Philip Ammerman
Nov 9, 2021
The reverse of the medal
An idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 16, 2021
VALUES AND GOVERNANCE
What strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...
Philip Ammerman
May 16, 2021
THE NON-SAFE NON-PASS
I am increasingly amused at the government’s invention of a coronavirus safety product where no product exists. The SafePass. We keep...
Philip Ammerman
May 4, 2021
MOB FAILURE
It's difficult to understand just why systems here in Cyprus are underperforming so dramatically. On Sunday, I visited friends staying at...
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