I would have voted for Nicușor Dan. Honestly. And now I congratulate myself on no longer having the right to vote. At least I have escaped the dilemma of having to choose between one disappointment and another. The man is a mathematician. And what an achievement! He has managed to demolish every equation of common sense. He may have been brilliant at mathematics. In politics, however, he seems to have discovered a revolutionary formula: change the axioms according to your interests, move the...

The series dedicated to the Revolution – Part Four, in which we, the conscripts Angelo and George, tell you how and why the Romanian Army was a walking catastrophe in December 1989. Contrary to the official propaganda, which portrayed it as one of the finest armies in the world: a “multi-purpose army”. A Multi-Purpose Army! My Arse! In the 1980s, Ceaușescu imagined an immovable military force, the “people’s army”, as communist propaganda called it. Everything was perfectly organised on paper:...

Some journeys take you somewhere; others slowly distance you from everything you know. The road to the far north of New Zealand is one of these. We leave Auckland with a full tank and the familiar feeling that a journey begins when you leave the city behind. Except this time, the city doesn't disappear immediately. It clings to us for a long time: motorways, petrol stations, traffic lights, suburbs, shops, trucks, houses following one another without interruption. In the rear-view mirror,...