So said Eliza’s father-villain in Shaw’s Pygmalion. How things have changed over a century of ‘progress’. In the […]
Author: John Ward
As we packed to leave here this afternoon, the telly was on in the background, just like it […]
Britain is still in a medium-term mess. For Ireland, the crisis is an impending disaster. The latest […]
Helping to clean the kitchen yesterday, I was forced to look into the bin, the fridge and various […]
More bad guys in getting away with it drama. Greece’s parliament has pushed through legislation that in effect […]
George Soros has been wittering on recently about gold being a bubble. As you’d expect from this chap, […]
Bekir Coskun, a militantly secular columnist for a Turkish mass-circulation daily, Habertürk, was sacked last month. Pressure from […]
THE ESTIMATED COST OF IRELAND’S BANK BAILOUT HAS RISEN 16 BILLION EUROS IN 12 HOURS. Last night, Ireland […]
Eight articles about David Miliband in the Daily Telegraph today was nine too many for The Slog. […]
MARKETS PESSIMISTIC AS DUBLIN CANCELS BOND AUCTIONS. An informal sample of currency and credit market managers approached by […]
Banking’s ‘recovery’ is being used to enable the Big to get even bigger – at lower and lower […]
Irish bailout: The European Central Bank is damned if it doesn’t, and dead if it does. Although Brian […]
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