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Month: September 2010

ISLAM: The persecution of Molly Norris is a crime against humanity.

The gifted cartoonist Molly Norris is alive and well, despite having a fatwah issued against her by the […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 fatwah, Islam's tolerance strikes again., Molly Norris, Seattle Weekly

NEWSCORP SPECULATION: Slog’s inside information to be vindicated?

Murdoch’s ‘Special Project’ is probably the multi-platform aperture predicted by The Slog in June. News began to leak […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 Gabriella Stern, Ipad, Jim Pensiero, new york times, Newscorp, Pete Picton, Robert Thomson, special project

ONS RETAIL SALES DATA: MORE BOLLOCKS FROMTHE MEDIA.

Call me visually impaired, but I fail to see this ‘drop’ in UK retail sales. As regular Sloggers […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 Breaking...media get ONS retail figures wrong AGAIN.

SKETCH: FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE EU’s TOWER OF BABEL.

A timely Irish warning so often ignored Squabbling while Europe drowns One of the early 1960s movie epics […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 Baroness Ashton Berlusconi, Christine Lagarde, comradely infighting., EU farce, financial chaos, Jose Manuel Barosso, Van Rompuy.

Slog’s appearance in top 100 blogs: a thank you

Without those who voted for The Slog and kept me going when at times it seemed pointless, thank […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 The Slog hits Hot Hundred at No 38

ANALYSIS: WORLD WAR III GETS UNDER WAY

THE CURRENCY CONFLICT: ONE WAR WHERE THE SWISS CAN’T BE NEUTRAL There are disturbing signs this morning that […]

John Ward September 16, 2010 dollar, Euro, Global currency war, Philippe Hildebrand, Swiss angry., Swiss Franc, Yen, Yuan

The unbelievably newsworthy attraction of those who believe.

Why is it that agnostic news media just love fundamentalists? It often occurs to me that those who […]

John Ward September 15, 2010 Breaking....Iran, Daily Mail, fundamentalism in the media, Harman, Harman Patten Murdoch, Hitler., Solzhenytsin

ANALYSIS: Why today’s employment statisics vindicate what the Coalition is doing

The media have jumped on today’s ONS tables without reading between the lines. The UK media got their […]

John Ward September 15, 2010 Coalition, crazies and lazies., doing well, Employment, media wrong, ons statistics

SKETCH: Sarkozy, Berlusconi, and the other Turkey.

The race is on between Sarko and Silvio as to who can take off the most kilos of […]

John Ward September 15, 2010 Berlusconi, Recep Erdogan, Sarkozy, strikes

BREAKING….Basel to look at tier 2 capital changes.

A proposed new Basel scheme would make those in banking more liable for disaster.But there is a way […]

John Ward September 15, 2010 bank regulation, BORA, Breaking...Basel eyes Tier 2, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Santander

Economic signage for the hard of seeing.

Today, oil fell 1%, and natural gas 1.2%. But gold rose 23 bucks to hit $1272. By my […]

John Ward September 14, 2010 gas, gold., Greek unemployment, oil, Swiss Franc, UN, Warren Buffet

Obama’s dithering: Why is the Elizabeth Warren appointment turning into the Mull of Can’tHire?

Obama should stop mulling Warren’s appointment, and just do it. For those who don’t know this already, Elizabeth […]

John Ward September 14, 2010 Blazing Saddles., Elizabeth Warren, Obama under pressure, Tim Geithner's diary

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