As expected the “transitional council” of Haiti shows itself to be self indulgent and unfit for purpose.

Polls in Panama are extremely inconsistent

only people of a certain race get to be digital nomads

I've been waiting 10 years to tell this story. This is the whole saga, from the moment I saw Jesús on a Caracas orphanage playground to the day he became a U.S. citizen. Thanks to Raúl Stolk and Caracas Chronicles for giving me the chance to tell it.

The good folk at Europadisc have been blogging perceptively on Finnish music. This entry looks at broader issues in the history/actuality of Finnish music with neat distillation of some themes from my book The Northern Silence, generously cited. 🙏 🇫🇮 europadisc.co.uk/blog/128/The-F…

Hungary-like fertility policies flatly don't work.

Hungary has dedicated major resources to this - no taxes for 3+ kids, debt forgiveness, major subsidies for homes. It's actually equivalent to ~5% of their GDP. The US military is 3.2%, so big spending.

Nothing happened.

Exactly what is needed.

Why is home ownership so low in Switzerland?

Walking around Pondicherry, India you will see many small scale, low end motels advertise that they have A/C rooms.

While gay activists in the Caribbean complain about the “legacies of colonialism” preventing the advance of gay rights in the independent Caribbean, the territories that are still UK dependencies progressed faster on gay rights. cpsi.media/p/colonialism-…

Most social media discussions on the history of European colonialism in Asia and Africa are not about real history but about legends.

Exactamente. Es curioso que la gente no lo entienda...

In 1854, so 170 years ago:

- Liverpool had more inhabitants than Moscow
- Manchester was larger than Madrid
- Leeds was larger than Milan
- Birmingham was larger than Rome
- Dundee was larger than Valencia
- Bath was larger than Frankfurt
- and Paisley larger than Athens

The Barbados Labour Party has been trying to get rid of the 11+ Exam since their 1976 election manifesto...

The IMF is very good at presenting data that carries no information.

De Beers, the world's largest producer and distributor of diamonds, to relocate auctions HQ from Singapore to Botswana sbr.com.sg/economy/news/d…

Who wanted an independent Barbados?

The government that led Barbados to independence in 1966 only won 37% of votes in elections of 1961. Usually England requested a full election before they grant independence. But with Barbados they did not push for it. And so it went.

.Rasheed J. Griffith argues that postcolonial ideology has become deeply entrenched and largely unquestioned in Caribbean intellectual and political life and thus continues to struggle at charting an autonomous path forward.

I lived in the Philippines and I think its culture should be more prominent globally. But I think this is very unlikely in the near future.

Jamaica would not have needed 'emergency funding' from the IMF it the country's fiscal environment was in order. It would have been able to borrow cheaply and quickly from international markets.