Monthly Archives: January 2015

Holocaust Memorial Day – Never Forget

Posted on January 27, 2015 by fmpdea

On this day 70 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in present-day Poland. The scale of death and human destruction they found there was not lost to these men, even though they had been fighting on the most violent … Continue reading →

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A New Phase in Euro-Zone Crisis – Zero Coupon Perpetuities for Greece?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by fmpdea

I don’t have an enormous amount of time to consider the implications of the Greek election yesterday in a tremendous amount of detail. So the following are my thoughts, disorganised and potentially incoherent.

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Je Suis Charlie

Posted on January 8, 2015 by fmpdea

All the cartoons they don’t like. Because freedom of expression, that’s why! If you think they had it coming you are one of those people who thinks women (or any other minority for that sake) deserve to be raped (or … Continue reading →

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