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Month: May 2010

OFFICIAL: CORPORATE LENDERS PULLING OUT OF EUROZONE – WHO PAYS NOW?

As the Eurozone strategy lies in tatters,you and I are going to wind upwith the bill. Better late […]

John Ward May 18, 2010 EU central bank effectively printing money, Goldman Sachs up to something., lenders selling bonds to ECB as fast as they can, we the taxpayer will get bill for this

9 pm: Market verdict on ECB bond-buying – "It’s QE"

If the ECB is buying 16.5 billion Euros of debt bonds (aka QE)why is Goldman’s O’Neill so bullish? […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 EU central bank heading down Inflation Way, Goldman Sachs again., Jim O'Neill an exception, most opinion pessimistic

HUMOUR: There’s a gap in the market for cookbooks about cockups.

As far as I know, nobody else has thought of this wheeze – so pay attention, this could […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 cock-ups cookbook, Delia Smith, how to save ruined meals, Jamie Oliver., marketing gap, Prue Leith

SKETCH: France’s finance minister has an interesting grasp of maths and forecasts.

Lagarde….optimist According to French website financefrance, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde ‘doesn’t care much either way about the concerns […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 can she add up, Christine Lagarde, economic forecast a bit odd, France, Sarkozy has a problem.

ANALYSIS: Four tables outlining where New Labour’s strategy went wrong.

Labour didn’t just leave a mess in the Treasury: the economic damage is far greater A senior contact […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 Blair blew an opportunity, Bradshaw and Mandelson, Frank Field, ONS data shows how workforce doing wrong things in the wrong sector, will hutton

EXCLUSIVE: ECB BOARD SPLIT REVEALS MORE CHAOS AT HEART OF EU

ECB’s Novotny….growing concern about Trichet strategy Slog sources confirmed the depth of disagreement inside the EU’s Frankfurt-based Central […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 ecb policy on debt crisis unravelling, eu central bank split at board level, Ewald Novotny, exlcusive, Jurgen Stark.

IRAN: The Urgent vs The Important, No. 317 (Collect the whole series)

Iranian nuclear ambitions and EU machinations are far more important than a not-very-special relationship. Iran has, as we […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 Ahmadinnejad, EU distracted, Foreign Office caught out again., Iranian nuclear deal, UK, US, William Hague

OPINION POLLS: They don’t support either Ed Balls or his views on the Coalition.

It looks as though opinion polls are going in the same 24/7 direction as the news did roughly […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 Balls nowhere., New ICM poll shows David Miliband miles ahead

SOUTH AFRICA: Planet Guardian tries to get a steer on what’s going on.

This weekend’s Guardian feature on South Africa shows how little our media truly understand about the dark continent. […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 corruption, FIFA, freedom is leaving the building., Guardian doesn't get it, mistakes of the West, poverty, South Africa

The Leeber Ladyship Contest

Who will triumph in the bid to find a new Ladyship for Leeber? This was the question Andrew […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 David Miliband, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, New Labour leadership election rules

How will Clegg keep himself busy?

Why every day could well be Cup Final Day for Keeper Clegg A European news site carried this […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 Clegg in non-job, Coalition under unfriendly fire., he's between the sticks, perhaps not

CONUNDRUM XI: IS THE BRITISH VOYAGER GENE DYING OUT?

Without wonder and risk, there can be no discovery and reward. Adopting risk-aversion can only lead to decline. […]

John Ward May 15, 2010 best genes die, Chinese are the coming empire., Empires expand by war, so empires decline

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