Lex
- Location
- London, England
- Birthday
- November 28
- Title
- Publications
- Company
- British Institute of International and Comparative Law
- Bio
- Trained journalist who is currently dabbling in publishing but managing to keep my toe in the water by writing pieces on anything from Berlin's Ostalgia market, Burkas in Courts, international law and politics to best train journeys and hot dogs.
Please don't panic, my pic is from Halloween- I do not aspire to dress like Sarah Palin in everyday life.
I am a mongrel, born in Austria, educated in Scotland and live in London. I love baseball and chillies. My favourite line in a movie is probably Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho: "I need to return some videotapes."
MY RECENT POSTS
- What will become of the Cuban
baseball game?
March 25, 2010 02:01PM - Blues State: Celebrating Obama
January 30, 2009 07:09PM - An Evening with Tracy Chapman
December 19, 2008 10:42AM - Notes on Xmas Shopping
December 15, 2008 12:30PM - Humanitarian Intervention and
Zimbabwe: A Primer
December 10, 2008 10:11AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I so agree with you
about Tom Cruise. He awaken
physical
reactions in me (none
go…”
November 19, 2008 12:33PM - “I'm so glad you
mentioned the West Wing-the
show not only
increased my IQ
substan…”
November 19, 2008 08:52AM
What will become of the Cuban baseball game?
Written by Alexa van Sickle
Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:00
In July 2003, four Havana University engineering students made the 90 mile trip from Cuba to Florida, floating on a Buick they had fitted with an engine — they had built a car boat from scratch. Despite their talent… Read full post »
Blues State: Celebrating Obama
There is a joke that makes the rounds in Washington, D.C. when a politician attracts mirth or somehow does not belong: An old rancher is talking about politics with a young man from the city. He compares a politician to a "post turtle". The young man doesn't understand and asks him… Read full post »
An Evening with Tracy Chapman
She can hardly believe it herself, but it really has been 20 years since Tracy Chapman began her professional career as a musician, which to us can be visibly pinpointed with her powerful performance for Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday at/… Read full post »
Notes on Xmas Shopping
Humanitarian Intervention and Zimbabwe: A Primer
Berlin and the business of nostalgia
By Alexa Van Sickle London Progressive Journal 8 March
Travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux once remarked that souvenirs serve no other purpose than to show you’ve arrived somewhere. Granted, he made this comment when he was confronted with fake shrunke… Read full post »
Cultural Values and the “Amstetten case”: what the
International and Austrian Media are Saying About Josef Fritzl
To have one incident involving children locked up in a basement may
be regarded as a misfortune, but to have two just seems like
carelessness. Or evidence of a troubling under… Read full post »
Where there is prohibition, nature fills the vacuum with a black market. On the long list of prohibited items in the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, the most sought-after contraband for young people was not Coca Cola, clothes or the works of David Hasselhof (contrary to what he might thi… Read full post »
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