Fix Hellas I know that “Fix Hellas” sounds like a cry of despair, but anyone who’s travelled to Greece before the early 1980s surely remembers ordering and drinking Fix Hellas, the only beer produced in Greece with a national distribution network. The country’s Soviet-style industry control system, import controls and a small domestic market ensured [...]
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I am not one of the giants of the literary establishment who regularly consorted with Christopher Hitchens, the great polemicist who died on December 15 after a two-year battle with cancer. I am just one of the lucky ones who met him fleetingly and were dazzled by his personality. Unlike many, I didn’t argue with [...]
READ MORE »Do you know what the good residents of the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia did when they realized that their main square had become a centre of the drug trade? Senior citizens stood on the square with a megaphone and announced as loudly as they could: “You, there! I saw you passing the dope palm-to-palm to [...]
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