THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

1 Let these elections just be over already. Not only am I sick and tired of this campaign, but I’m actually embarrassed that we’re even talking about the rubbish all over Skopje. It turned out that the process of collecting rubbish from bins is some sort of impossible...
THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

MICE AND PEOPLE

1 If, in 2025, in the middle of a local election campaign, the main topic in our capital is uncollected rubbish and how rats will eat us, what will be the topic of the local elections in 2029? Air pollution is a problem if we look at it from the perspective of the...
THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

PENS AND LIGHTERS

1 Do political parties underestimate voters that much, or do voters underestimate themselves when, during election campaigns, they fall for T-shirts, caps, and notebooks handed out in some bags by ministers, high-ranking officials of the ruling party, and opposition...
THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

TWO BALLS AND ONE FOR FREE

1 What are the odds that two convicted men from the same company, sentenced in the same trial, both avoid prison because they’ve each got a testicular hernia? The owner of “Durmo Tours,” Durmish Beluli, and the firm’s transport manager, Remzi Miftari, were sentenced...
THE DAY AFTER THE BLACKMAIL

SHOT OFF TARGET

1 Not a single election since 1991 has gone by without me saying: Get out and vote! I always turn up at the polls because I don’t want to give up the only weapon I have – to punish those who waste my money and to give a chance to those I think will spend it with my...