How nice that it doesn’t always just happen to the others. In this little country where nothing ever happens worth bothering about, we now have a really juicy scandal. Not that it can match some other countries that I won’t name here, but for us it is a bit of an earthquake. Luckily most people [...]
My Happy Birthday wishes to a great man.
German author,Political Scientist, and China expert,Wolfgang Hirn isn’t sure that China deserves the miserable reputation that it has in the west. His two books “The Chinese Challenge” (Herausforderung China) and “Asian Attack” (Angriff aus Asien),published by Fischer, make interesting reading. China is gigantic,China is suspiciously, “foreign”,and then there are all these 1.3 Billion people. China will become,next to [...]
Last year approximately 100,000 tons of grain was used to make biological fueI. I love the colour green, but I love a fresh loaf of bread more. 1 Swiss Frank per day, per person. Worldwide at least a billion people must live on this amount. That hardly pays for basic food. The price for grain [...]
For such a small country Switzerland certainly has a knack at getting themselves into trouble. Or maybe I should say our women do. Only last month our Foreign Ministerin,Micheline Calmy-Rey,took a trip to Iran,donned a head scarf and shook hands on a deal with their President to supply us in future with enough natural gas [...]
59% of the people who were asked this question in Switzerland last week said yes. It won’t help of course.It wouldn’t help if most of the world said yes. The only thing that would help is that the athletes themselves refused to take part. But they are not going to do that,because it is all [...]
A State Visit to England always entails a lot of work when it comes to getting the brass polished, but what was shown yesterday for the visit of President Sarkozy of France and his new wife,- more well known for nude portraits, seemed to me as a Brit, and despite everything a Royalist, a little [...]
For a Sunday the Bahnhofstrasse was surprisingly busy this afternoon. The weather was cold, but sunny so we thought everyone was out taking advantage of the Spring like day. We heared the tooting of car horns and at first thought it was coming from supporters of a football derby being played in the Hardturm,but then [...]
Although I do sometimes get homesick for England but I think I would probably go mad if I lived there. It was bad enough that England decided they needed an Italian to show them how to play football, but now the Archbishop of Canterbury, of all people rants on about how we should accept the [...]
