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Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson

Tom Nicholson has been with The Slovak Spectator since 1997. He was appointed editor-in-chief in 1998, and publisher in 2001. After taking a leave from the paper from 2002 to 2004, he rejoined it as publisher and as editor of the SPEX magazine. In March 2007 he left the Spectator to lead an investigative program at the SME daily paper. He continues to cooperate with the Spectator. He holds a master’s degree in history from Queen’s University in Canada, and has worked for the Whig Standard and National Post dailies in that country.

List of author's articles, page 5

Europe’s moral indigestion amusing no longer

Urgent tasks at this week’s emergency EU summit include waking up to reality and sharing responsibility for migrants.

Tom Nicholson

Hard things are done by those who can

An impasse over refugee aid does not justify the contempt of the wealthy for the poor.

Tom Nicholson

Go home, and other notes from the sewer

It hurts to see Slovakia mocked in the international press. All the more so when we deserve it.

Tom Nicholson

In Visegrad, ingratitude and short memories

Stark contrast between East and West European approaches to refugees spell trouble ahead.

Tom Nicholson

Chaos in Röszke.

Hungary puts the misery back in migration

Chaos and despair mount at refugee camps near Serbia as Budapest throttles unprecedented movement of people across EU.

Tom Nicholson

Europe needs new heroes

The shocking cure for our xenophobia: meeting a refugee brings instant relief from painful ignorance.

Tom Nicholson

Night falling over Europe

Death of a three-year-old boy faces Europe with a choice between humanity and tradition.

Tom Nicholson

Slovakia and migrants

FICO’S rejection of refugee quotas hurts Slovakia, not the migrants who don’t want to come here in the first place.

Tom Nicholson

Who is living outside reality?

THERE are now 60 million displaced people in the world, the most ever recorded by the United Nations. Of those, 14 million fled last year alone.

Tom Nicholson

A fine white day

Parading fascists and indulgent PM beg question: who here is “out of touch with reality”?

Tom Nicholson

Now it's really time to quit smoking

Shamed, by the Chinese, into quitting smoking. How do you know it’s time to break the habit? When even Beijing – Beijing! – bans smoking in public places.

Tom Nicholson

An iron cross commemorates the place where Róbert Remiáš died during a car explosion.

Remiáš betrayed

Police refusal to investigate state-sanctioned killing is further proof that we are not all equal before the law.

Tom Nicholson

Karol Mitrík, new head of the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ)

Shame on Frešo; shame on us

There are so many reasons why Karol Mitrík is unsuitable as the new director of the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) that this short space will suffice only to scratch the surface.

Tom Nicholson

PM Robert Fico

Making weapons, forging discord

Fico’s plan to make weapons for Russia can only further distance Slovakia from Western partners.

Tom Nicholson

Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák

Kaliňák’s cynicism

HUNDREDS of thousands of migrants will again set sail across the Mediterranean this summer, fleeing war and poverty in North Africa.

Tom Nicholson

Sergej Salmanov

Salmanov’s liaisons

WHENEVER the “Slovak mafia” came up in conversation, Sergej Salmanov would sneer. “Mafia,” he would scorn. “This is not mafia, this is children. Real mafia is in Russia.”

Tom Nicholson

Plan for migrants unworthy of Europe

EU’s response to the tide of vulnerable people sweeping across the Mediterranean has been to lock the door.

Tom Nicholson

A group of Russian bikers who wanted to reach Berlin to mark 70th anniversary of Soviet contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany return to Belarus after being denied entry into Poland on administrative grounds, in Terespol, Poland on April 27.

Farce of Night Wolves

Europe is not threatened by a few dozen motorcycles, but by the national mood that produced the Night Wolves’ visit.

Tom Nicholson

Protests over the Gorilla scandal drew thousands into Slovakia’s squares.

A long strange trip continues

Principled ownership is the only recipe for journalistic freedom.

Tom Nicholson

Immigration realpolitik

Canada rolls out the welcome mat for economic migrants; refugees, not so much.

Tom Nicholson

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