EStAL 2|2009 Editorial 111 Today’s events, meaning those that are relevant for the subject-matter of this journal, seem to be very much in parallel with a phenomenon that is so well-known to those used to life in the United Kingdom. When it rains there – which it does to quite some extent – there appears to exist a magic link between the intensity of this rain and the number of buses running. The heavier the rain gets, the fewer the buses. Something very similar seems to