Clik here to view.
Observations | Routine
Three days a week, my teaching assignments take me to the same company and after 9 months of using the same route from the station to the company’s office I am starting to see patterns of activity and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editorial | The English Version… take your life in your hands
There’s a little something that mystifies and bothers me about Portugal… I’ll explain shortly, but first I want to tell you about how I spent the last twenty eight years, since I was fifteen (yes, I’m...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Observations | Airports
Airports. Gotta love them. This week I ventured back to Aeroporto de Lisboa after what was, for me, a lengthy absence (nearly 7 months). I was pleasantly surprised to note some positive changes since...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editorial | Ovos Mexidos… não, espere… Verão!
Os nossos cérebros parecem ovos mexidos, não podemos mexer, não conseguimos dormir, os dias são interrompidos por sonhos de imperiais frescas e caipirinhas geladas, a criançada pergunta “o que é...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to do a music festival in your forties i
I bought the ticket in February. I wasn’t going to miss this. I would put up with all the rest of the bands on that day that didn’t really do anything for me (or who I had never heard of… hey, I’m...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to do a music festival in your forties ii
I would never make it as a music journalist. Back to festival-land last night — Super Bock Super Rock — which is pretty close to where I live, so I gave in and said yes we could go, as the Arctic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Observations | Festival-tastic
A couple of weekends ago I realised, with a blinding flash of inspiration, that I knew what I wanted my primary superpower to be. (I say primary because obviously there has to be more than one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Observations – Airports, The Return
Some of you may recall that about a month ago I wrote a little observation about airports (mainly Lisbon’s airport) in which I was somewhat smug about how I knew the route to avoid the enforced march...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Observations | The People that you meet
As you will know by now, I have recently spent a lot of time in airports and, not coincidentally, on aeroplanes. My chosen ‘aeroplane seat personality’ is Little Miss Anti-Social, particularly on long...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mark Blyth: «With austerity you can simply drip to death»
Our guest this week is Mark Blyth, Professor of International Political Economy and Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute (Brown University). He is the author of books like “Great Transformations:...
View Article
