Corfu Blues and Global Views

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Wednesday, 9 November 2016

November 9th, 2016: Crunch Time, America





Shall I keep the nutcracker in its box, as a piece of history, or consign it to Ebay?

I shall keep it, of course. It was a present.


What will happen to all the other campaign merchandise and souvenirs?
The least of the country's problems...
 But they may have helped Mr. Trump to win the election.

Concession Speech

In Full

Sky News video



Donald Trump inherits a divided republic - The Economist

Obama: 'Excellent' talks with Trump, MSN/Sky News Video

How the U.S. Elects Its Presidents, Bloomberg

Concern in Brussels and Berlin - Trump Spells End of Normality for Europe, Spiegel Online

Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right, Bloomberg

The Trump Era, The Economist

The Trump administration, What to expect
More from The Economist

Trump and advisers hedge on major pledges, including Obamacare and the wall, Washington Post

A posting on Observing Greece blog, Klaus Kastner - Ross Perot's "Giant Sucking Sound" Revisited

Scotland: Holyrood on Trump - laughter turns to nervousness, Herald Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon 'will not be silent' over Donald Trump, BBC News

Piers Morgan, MailOnline

More from Mr Morgan


















Jim at 08:56:00
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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