Archive for September, 2016
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich (1): two book reviews
September 8th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
This weekend sees the release in Britain of the film “Anthropoid” which tells the true story of the assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia in 1942. I’ll certainly been going to see it. But first I want to revisit an earlier film on the same subject: it was called “Operation: Daybreak” and […]
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Consumer empowerment in the digital economy
September 7th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
The German government has committed to using their presidency of the G20 in 2017 to address the issue of consumer empowerment in the digital economy. Consumers International, the international federation of consumer organisations, and its German Member organisation (VZBV) are leading partners in the initiative. One of the key activities that the German government is […]
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Remembering the Prague Uprising of 1945
September 6th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
I’ve just returned from a visit – my 27th in almost three decades – to Prague. The occasion this time was a wedding of some dear young friends and but, on the last day, I took the opportunity to go on a two-hour walking tour with a World War Two theme. A major part of […]
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Another visit to the beautiful city of Prague
September 2nd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
i blog so regularly on NightHawk that, if I miss a couple of days, some of my faithful readers worry that I might have been kidnapped. So this is a short note to explain that I’m making a short visit to Prague and won’t be blogging much For a few days. Over the last three […]
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