Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

'Small' towns, you might say, offer an antidote to totalitarianism.

A Takedown, not a Downturn 

SATURDAY

There’s something a little more than odd about the latest  migrant assault  from the Moroccan hinterland on the border fence in the Spanish North African city of Melilla — a pimple, you might say, on the backside of Morocco.  Happening less than 200 kilometres from where I sit right now, these events have the feel of a…