@nkonstandaras.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
A beautiful piece. Surprisingly relevant to much else. Healing lies in communicating and understanding, and politics are fixed in the opposite direction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
Bite Club: The Fraternity That Awaits You After a Shark Attack
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August 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A beautiful piece. Surprisingly relevant to much else. Healing lies in communicating and understanding, and politics are fixed in the opposite direction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...
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If you want to know the background to Greece’s mass demonstrations and strikes today, this is a comprehensive explainer. It’s devastating; made all the more so by its careful and evenhanded precision and impeccably technocratic source: www.macropolis.gr?i=portal.en....
#Tempe #Tempi #RailDisaster
#Tempe #Tempi #RailDisaster
The nightmare of our choice
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella, earned its reputation mostly as a critique of Western colonialism. However, the author also wanted it to convey his horror at what he called the “crimi...
www.macropolis.gr
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If you want to know the background to Greece’s mass demonstrations and strikes today, this is a comprehensive explainer. It’s devastating; made all the more so by its careful and evenhanded precision and impeccably technocratic source: www.macropolis.gr?i=portal.en....
#Tempe #Tempi #RailDisaster
#Tempe #Tempi #RailDisaster
The tragedies of recent years have a common cause - when our state’s “functional incompetence” runs into a situation which demands perfect method, excellent training and personal responsibility.
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1260...
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1260...
Functional incompetence | eKathimerini.com
The tragedies of recent years – those which shocked us with the large number of victims and the fact that they may easily have been avoided – have a common cause.
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February 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The tragedies of recent years have a common cause - when our state’s “functional incompetence” runs into a situation which demands perfect method, excellent training and personal responsibility.
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1260...
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1260...
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Grateful to @nkonstandaras.bsky.social for joining us in The Agora to discuss the legacy of Greece's late PM Costas Simitis. Despite criticism, ranging from valid to blinkered, his premiership was undoubtedly one of the most impactful in Greek post-WWII history shows.acast.com/5ead72cc41f1...
The life and legacy of Costas Simitis | The Agora
A look back at the impact of Greece's late Prime Minister
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January 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Grateful to @nkonstandaras.bsky.social for joining us in The Agora to discuss the legacy of Greece's late PM Costas Simitis. Despite criticism, ranging from valid to blinkered, his premiership was undoubtedly one of the most impactful in Greek post-WWII history shows.acast.com/5ead72cc41f1...
Costas Simitis is the measure of what this nation can accomplish, of its strengths and of the difficulties it faces, of what we could achieve if we had more politicians who placed consensus and the collective good above personal interests.
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1258...
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1258...
Costas Simitis and the measure of things | eKathimerini.com
Costas Simitis was born into a political family and lived his life in the tumult of Greece’s politics, but he was so “alien,” so different to other Greek politicians that he was like a board on which ...
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January 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Costas Simitis is the measure of what this nation can accomplish, of its strengths and of the difficulties it faces, of what we could achieve if we had more politicians who placed consensus and the collective good above personal interests.
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1258...
www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1258...
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"Η κοινωνία μας –τουλάχιστον το κομμάτι που εκφράζεται μέσω της πολιτικής και της δημοσιογραφίας– δεν συγχωρεί όσους φαίνονται πιο έξυπνοι, και που φέρονται σαν να είμαστε όλοι υπεύθυνα άτομα, με ίσα δικαιώματα και ίσες υποχρεώσεις." 🎯
January 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Η κοινωνία μας –τουλάχιστον το κομμάτι που εκφράζεται μέσω της πολιτικής και της δημοσιογραφίας– δεν συγχωρεί όσους φαίνονται πιο έξυπνοι, και που φέρονται σαν να είμαστε όλοι υπεύθυνα άτομα, με ίσα δικαιώματα και ίσες υποχρεώσεις." 🎯
Δέστε τις αποτιμήσεις συνεργατών και φίλων του Σημίτη. Από το 2023. Του χρωστάμε πολλά.
www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/5627...
www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/5627...
Δύο σκέψεις για τον Σημίτη
Οι αποτιμήσεις του Κώστα Σημίτη και του έργου του από συνεργάτες και φίλους του που δημοσίευσε η kathimerini.gr, με αφορμή τη χθεσινή εκδήλωση προς τιμήν του από το Ινστιτούτο Ζακ Ντελόρ, το Δίκτυο γι...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Δέστε τις αποτιμήσεις συνεργατών και φίλων του Σημίτη. Από το 2023. Του χρωστάμε πολλά.
www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/5627...
www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/5627...
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Costas #Simitis, the socialist prime minister known for championing economic reform and European integration, who was instrumental in #Greece’s adoption of the euro, has died at age 88. #PASOK www.ekathimerini.com/news/1257851...
Ex-PM Costas Simitis dies at 88 | eKathimerini.com
Costas Simitis, who headed Greece’s 1996-2004 socialist government as prime minister, has died at age 88.
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January 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Costas #Simitis, the socialist prime minister known for championing economic reform and European integration, who was instrumental in #Greece’s adoption of the euro, has died at age 88. #PASOK www.ekathimerini.com/news/1257851...
