I am glad I have been out of the country for the last week of this game of Russian roulette. Europe has, sensibly, been more exercised by the European Cup, a much more appropriate expression of international cooperation and competition, nationalism without nastiness. It has produced some great moments of theatre, much better than recent … More R Day -1
Yesterday I passed over the eponymous Bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo. No corpses or autistic cops spotted, but it still gave me a frisson as it’s not just an icon of Scandinavian cooperation, but of a new European culture. The one some would walk away from. That said, it was lucky my geographical sense remains in working … More R Day -2
This extraordinary edifice in the Antwerp docks stands for the uncomfortable accommodation of old and new you often find in Europe. Looking like a giant inter-galactic space bug trying to mate with a 19th century asylum, it seems to come from the same impulse which drives schoolboys to put a moustache on the Mona Lisa. … More R Day-4
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