Northern Light – chilled thoughts from the top of Europe

"Let it be one cheerful rational voice amidst the din of mourners and polemics." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840. A Brit-in-Helsinki's blog about global politics, climbing, cycling, things that annoy me and other bits of life. But not necessarily in that order.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Wintour's Leap

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It's the holidays hence lack of blogging - but I've been up to a few things including up a rather large cliff called Wintour's L...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas in Worcestershire

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Christmas Day dawned rainy and gray but it began to lift so we went out for a run. Following on from last years " tradition " I Yo...
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Happy Christmas

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I escaped damp and virtually-always-dark Finland for damp, misty but slightly less dark England. It's the food that keeps me coming bac...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Biking 2007

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I'm off to England tomorrow and won't be back until after New Year, so today I did my last 45 kms cycling of the year, to work and b...

One man's terrorist...

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...is another man's strategic asset? Particularly when the first man is President Ahmadinejad of Iran, the second man works for the U.S....
Monday, December 17, 2007

Sympathy for the Devil

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The regime in Iran is a thoroughly repressive, autocratic, illiberal AND incompetent bunch - haven't the people of Iran suffered enough?...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Sunday ice climbing

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ice bubbles Tony tiptoes up the smear to get to the slightly thicker stuff Simon approaches the tricky bit Coffee break A marginally less bo...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Ron Paul and men with guns

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I just noticed this on the Weekly Standard blog about the Ron Paul campaign: "...and that money is pouring in from all sorts of unpred...
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