Alejandro@Oxford

This is a great story. It is Monday, 17 November in New York City. The Belgian Minister of Defense , Pieter De Crem, and some his advisers arrive from Brussels for meetings at the United Nations. There is not much to do, so they decide to have “some” drinks all at Mr. Taxpayer expense. After [...]

After writing my last post, where I said

Obama, in my opinion, has an open view of the way he wants to make policy decisions. He is not fundamentalist about ideology, though he has strong principles and values. He doesn’t believe he is always right; instead he sees the truth lying out there among the people [...]

President-elect Obama has launched a new page on his www.change.gov site to foster debate about several issues. It has started with health care. As it is reported in The Huffington Post, more noteworthy than the website itself is what the Obama team is signaling with its launch. It isn’t coincidental that Obama is addressing health [...]

President-elect Obama has launched a new page on his www.change.gov site to foster debate about several issues. It has started with health care. As it is reported in The Huffington Post,
more noteworthy than the website itself is what the Obama team is signaling with its launch. It isn’t coincidental that Obama is addressing health care [...]

On Thursday night, I was browsing my profile on Facebook when I spotted that my relationship status was not entirely correct; it said that I was in a relationship with my partner. I consider that being a relationship with someone is a relatively loose bond, it is a bond you can have with a girlfriend, [...]

On Thursday night, I was browsing my profile on Facebook when I spotted that my relationship status was not entirely correct; it said that I was in a relationship with my partner. I consider that being a relationship with someone is a relatively loose bond, it is a bond you can have with a girlfriend, [...]

Just a short post on Europeana, the newly-launched Europe’s digital library, museum and archive funded by the European Union. It opens today, 20 November, and its goal is to bring “digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest collections.” At this moment, according to the International Herald Tribune, it has “3 million [...]

Just a short post on Europeana, the newly-launched Europe’s digital library, museum and archive funded by the European Union. It opens today, 20 November, and its goal is to bring “digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest collections.” At this moment, according to the International Herald Tribune, it has “3 million [...]

Today, I would like to dedicate my blog to a new campaign to create awareness about children in trouble in the UK. You can get more information here. Evidence shows that most children in trouble are trapped in a cycle of disadvantage: * they come from the poorest families and communities * they have the [...]

Today, I would like to dedicate my blog to a new campaign to create awareness about children in trouble in the UK.
You can get more information here.
Evidence shows that most children in trouble are trapped in a cycle of disadvantage:
* they come from the poorest families and communities
[...]