creative differences

We apologise for the lengthy pause between posts, and like all good collaborators (or saboteurs depending on your political bent), put it down to creative differences between the band, err, I mean blog, members. But we have reached a consensus and will not leave you in the lurch again.


See? Happy families.

And in the meanwhile, the Paulisario Front has been very active - so a quick update for you which will be followed shortly (incidentally, I have come to understand that "shortly" can mean anything from "right now" to "in a few weeks" and is therefore the perfect response when someone asks when you will have something ready by) with a more detailed assessment of our recent candidates.

• Oxford, currently claimed by the UK but the Paulisario Front is not being fooled. "All Souls" you call it, "Christ Church" hey? It is indeed possible that behind all those stone walls and meagre visiting hours, the college that has nudged its way ahead of rival "polytechnic" Cambridge is in fact preparing to launch its own secession attempts - where else do they still speak Latin anyway?

• Paris, France. Suffice to say that the Paulisario Front cannot recall every having visited any other location in France despite a cumulative 6 visits. Surely this warrants investigation as to whether, like Serbia and other great "nations" before it, Paris is preparing to claim sovereignty over the entire region between Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Belgium, formerly known as France (we're not sure they'd bother taking Andorra with them, but Andorra may choose to exercise any right to tag along that it may be able to establish..... ).

• Slovenia. A country that looks like a cartoon village:
  

can surely not lay a claim to nationhood. What if it rained? Although in gorgeous Slovenia it probably never would.

• Czech Republic. One member of the Paulisario Front was heard to comment "having a country name which includes the descriptor 'Republic' just makes it sound so bloodless". The other member of the Paulisario Front, especially having watched the footage of the 1989 riots, rather thinks it may have precisely the opposite effect. It is possible that the Czech Republic may be (to its benefit) considering expulsion of the tourism industry from its otherwise upstanding Republic.

And, as a teaser of things to come, the Paulisario Front will soon be inspecting Greece and considers it likely that it will be able to finally put an end to the controversy surrounding Greece and its near neighbour, FYRM.