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.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Shalom Auslander - I want that name

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Even if he does write odd things about hamsters , I think Shalom Auslander has the coolest name on contemporary radio. It somehow seems to s...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Dope on a rope

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This is just for the rock climbers - check your ropes dudes. We managed to do the damage below at some point last weekend, I'm not sure ...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

St. George's Day

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Yesterday was St. George's Day. Like probably many other good, patriotic, Englishmen and women I totally forgot. Indeed I only realised ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

50,000 hits

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...and still standing. I just noticed that my oldest hit counter has gone well past 50,000 since I started doing this a couple of years ago....
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Forza Italia!?

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I don't know a lot about Italian politics, but when President Putin is shutting down newspapers from your garden - that puts you on my ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Climbing Social Scientists

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I was at conference in Brussels on Friday and Saturday on "Visas, Migration and Asylum in the EU" - all very political science and...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

cycling off into the sunset

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I had a three great messages left on my last post moaning about work, from mates and also from Iain who I've never actually met but know...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

All quiet on the Northern Light front...

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It has not been a good week to put it mildly. But I made it through without crying or punching anyone - despite coming close to both. When y...
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