Recently there were in HBL various articles about a number of infrastructure projects – well, to be more exact it was always about projects for railway lines: one line to Kirkenes on the shore of the Polar Ocean, one via a tunnel to Tallinn, one via Lojo to Salo.

In Hbl of last Sunday (3.02.19) the very appreciable Anna-Lena Laurén had a piece titled “Människovärdet i det forna Sovjet och Finland”, where she was refreshing her suspicion (on occasion of the events in that meanwhile ill-reputed Esperi Care-vårdhem) that “den bolsjevikiska logiken har funnit sin väg in till beslutsfattandet i Finland. I form av omfamnandet av New Public Management”. For an explanation she is a bit further on adding that “Utmärkande för den bolsjevikiska ideologin är et beslutsamt blundande inför verkligheten. Programmet ska genomföras, det spelar ingen roll om det fungerar”.

Recently, during these days when the Finnish parties are preparing for the upcoming election campaign, both Vänsterförbundet and De Gröne were announcing very ambitious aims concerning the protection of the climate. Very good!

It was already a bit before I read in today’s Hbl (Sö 27.01) that “EU-länder ställer Maduro inför ultimatum” that I read on Facebook that Timo Soini had publicly taken the side of the USA in the conflict (to which I wrote a short comment which began with the formulation “What a surprise …”).