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. ...
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Philip Ammerman
- Oct 20
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
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
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
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
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
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
€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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 6, 2021
In Favour of Minimum Wage
I learned this morning of the failure of the $ 15 minimum wage proposal in the Senate. I am not surprised. We are in the middle of a...
Philip Ammerman
- Feb 21, 2021
The Great Texas Electricity Debacle
You would think that somewhere, sometime there would be a limit to the criminal buffoonery that has become normal in the United States....