Sometimes, the Orwellian nature of ‘news’ these days can convince even canny old hounds like me that I’ve […]
Month: October 2012
Bollocks of the week for me was the statement by a junior Finance Minister in Tehran that – […]
Major eurozone crisis as Athens denied access to Nov 16th tranche CRUNCH TIME Surprise, surprise – the meeting […]
As news breaks that Mario Draghi’s ECB is giving serious consideration to gold-backed eurobonds and a ban on […]
Marigold Draghi? ….looks at gold-backed bonds to restore confidence The Slog’s Brussels Mole reports that a bold double-whammy […]
So, is it a deal? Athens and Berlin-am-Brussels have agreed to disagree about whether or not they […]
Five weeks ago The Slog opined that ‘Spain’s banking instability is as important as its poor sovereign access […]
The Rosneft takeover is ominous in almost every sense Allegedly, everyone’s a winner in BP’s Russian deal. But thousands […]
Greek Prime Minister Samaras has brokered a deal that is no deal at all. A major realignment of […]
This obviously very inspiring personality to the left here is Lord Bichard. He is a genuine, fully paid-up […]
This tweet came in tonight, I having ruefully suggested it’s not nice to call James Delingpole a twat: […]
The Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology has just published a load of old tosh about the effect […]