Rob Cameron

“The culture of the Slovak people should be Slovak. Slovak and no other” - Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová.

Two years on, the Slovak National Gallery has lost artists, visitors & international partners.

It couldn't happen here in CZ.

Could it?

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It's the arrogance that's so breathtaking. Don't know if you've watched the videos but you don't need to speak Slovak to get a measure of it.

And I didn't even have time to get into her key adviser at the ministry, who says he's not 100% convinced the earth is round because he hasn't been to space.

Description of a struggle A Prague gallery documents the subjugation of Slovak culture

I've written about the capture of Slovakia's national art gallery by far-right populists, and why it might serve as a warning for other countries ... including the Czech Republic.

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Still thinking about Prague’s phantom swan thief.

Absurd, real, unresolved - and oddly revealing.

🦢

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What is Dominic Cummings up to? | The Observer Ten years on from Brexit, six years after Barnard Castle, the strategist thinks he has a plan to ‘set things on a profoundly different path’. Why does he still believe he has the answers?

The big lesson for the media and political classes from Mandelson is to stop putting these banal characters on a pedestal.

And here we are, with Cummings, saying nothing more interesting or insightful than the average X alt-right shit-poster. On a pedestal.

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This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

150 swans have gone missing in Prague in the last 12 months.

Swan poachers have been caught on camera.

One of them has been identified as an ornithologist.

But the crime is low priority because ... how do you put a price on a swan?

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😄 🦢🚑

This is an excellent question. Still trying to find the answer.

All revealed in the Substack!

Who is the phantom swan thief of Prague?

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They’re stealing the swans Of the people that live there.

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They're eating the dogs.

They're eating the cats.

Eight years.

Their house has been demolished.

Their makeshift shine is now a memorial.

Those who were running Slovakia are back in power.

I've written about the murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée as a court hears the case for the third time.

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Miroslav Lajčák has resigned as advisor to Slovak PM Robert Fico after new messages emerged from Epstein files.

Screenshots show Lajčák (former ForMin & ex-president of UN General Assembly) discussing girls with Epstein.

Lajčák categorically denies claims.

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New judges. Full retrial. No quick verdict.

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Justice delayed The murder of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée goes to court for the third time

Piece is now online here: open.substack.com/pub/robjcame...

Justice delayed The murder of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée goes to court for the third time

Investigative journalist Ján Kuciak & his fiancée Martina Kušnírová were 27 when they were shot dead in their home on Feb 21, 2018.

Four people have been convicted of their murders.

But the businessman accused of ordering the killing is not among them.

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Just back from Slovakia, where a court has begun re-examining the evidence against Marian Kočner, accused of ordering the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak (his fiancée was killed with him) in 2018.

This is the third trial - will justice be delivered?

New piece coming tomorrow.

spent half the day in a train coming back from Bratislava but sort of watched it through my fingers.

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Enough of experts Parliament to host a meeting of Czech and Slovak conspiracy theorists

Notorious peddlers of Covid disinfo meet in the Czech parliament today.

The star guest is Slovak orthopaedic surgeon & MP
Peter Kotlár, who says the pandemic was a global conspiracy.

He's now the Slovak govt special envoy for investigating the pandemic.
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Enough of experts Parliament to host a meeting of Czech and Slovak conspiracy theorists

When conspiracy theorists are put in charge of public policy, the damage isn’t just theoretical.

New post on Peter Kotlár, Slovakia – and a warning for the Czech Republic.

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Six years on, Covid is back – not as a virus, but as politics.

New piece tomorrow.

Czechoslovak war heroes, anti-Communist resistance fighters, Jewish victims of the plague ...

Prague's graveyards are often chaotic places with many a mystery buried beneath.

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Merci pour sharing Anna!

Did Margaret Thatcher really try to have a distant relative of Denis exhumed in Prague?

I wrote about this - and about the other unresolved stories lying in Prague’s lesser-known cemeteries.

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Thank you Peter. It really is.

The search for the headless corpses of resistance heroes.

A park built over Jewish graves.

And what happened to the body of the man who started the First World War?

Read on:

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What lies buried in the cold hard ground?

New post coming tomorrow.

The word “dollar” traces its roots back to a silver-mining town in what is now the Czech Republic.

That history says more about Czech attitudes to money than most policy debates.

I wrote about it here:

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