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Month: August 2010

REVIEW: A tale of two books

A stinker from Tom Sharpe, and a hoot from Sue Townsend. As the heat of August tails off […]

John Ward August 31, 2010 Sue Townsend., Tom Sharpe

SKETCH: The Labour wannabes gear up to be not New.

It’s time the Labour wannabes had their collars felt. So strong is the Labour Party continuity in the […]

John Ward August 31, 2010 andy burnham, David Miliband, Dianne Abbott, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Labour leadership contest

Breaking: Gold breakthrough forecast as slump signs fall into place

CRASH 2: NOW IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME Stock markets, oil, IPOs, index futures all down. Acceptance […]

John Ward August 31, 2010 Breaking....gold futures climb, Japan in chaos, oil falls, stocks fall, very long slow recovery.

OFFICIAL: BRITAIN’S EXPORTING FIASCO NOT BEING HELPED BY 4 OUTOF 5 OF US NOT DOING ANY.

New ONS data also reveals how and where Labour’s dependency government has disadvantaged Britain. We tend to think […]

John Ward August 31, 2010 Breaking...ONS employment data, damns Labour social and export policies.

What research shows

A new survey this week shows that 3 in 5 Brits think the Post Office should remain in […]

John Ward August 31, 2010 China, McKinsey, Sarah Palin, Turkey, UK post office

WILDLIFE: Summer’s end.

Not many people like snakes. As it happens, my elder daughter does: as a kid, she had a […]

John Ward August 30, 2010 Autumn, dogs, flies, geckos, goats, Hoopos, snakes, squirrels, walnuts, wasps

OPINION: Obama has painted himself into a corner.

The Obamites suffer from the same naivety and ineptitude as the Blairites. To start blaming everyone else now […]

John Ward August 30, 2010 care regulation, debt management, foreign policy, health, Obama, unmitigated disaster.

ANALYSIS: France & Lagarde are far closer to the cliff than they care to admit.

It’s thumbs up for France, says Lagarde. Over the last two months, The Slog has occasionally given readers […]

John Ward August 30, 2010 Christine Lagarde, eurozone doomed., France

SKETCH: Miliband D Major nails his colours to the idea of moving on to somewhere.

Minigland…staying right here in, um, er…. There is something about the elder one of the Miliband brace that […]

John Ward August 30, 2010 David Miliband, John Rentoul, snake., The Independent

ANALYSIS: Google close to Hollywood movie deal for Youtube movies

Google’s predicted deal with Hollywood is both good and bad news. Google staffers may well have been wondering […]

John Ward August 30, 2010 Breaking....Google, Hollywood, Movies on YouTube.

There has been an error in producing your error message.

‘This message could not be sent because of an error’. It was just another of those messages that […]

John Ward August 28, 2010 Asil Nadir, Error messages, political games.

Life’s a pain and then you die.

I was very much a part of My Generation, the baby-boomer naifs who thought they were going to […]

John Ward August 28, 2010 decrepitude., grumpiness, Oldies, pain

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