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RAOUL MOAT: Shooting ourselves in the foot on crime.

Counting the cost of a Moat Now that Raoul Moat is no longer with us, it seems appropriate […]

John Ward July 10, 2010 costly manhunt, one size fits all prison wrong., Raoul Moat, Theresa May

UK RECOVERY: Let’s not get it started until we have our ducks in a row.

According to the new ONS statistics out today, before taking into account the costs of debt management and […]

John Ward July 9, 2010 no boom without reconstruction., ONS damning evidence

The future’s in The Slog…

From the PoliticsHome website today: Coalition could ‘wipe out’ Lib Dems The Liberal Democrat leader of Liverpool council […]

John Ward July 9, 2010 Clegg problems persist, Libdem Council slams Clegg., Slog predicts

The smell of burning Taliban in the morning.

Gen. James Mattis was named on Thursday as the replacement for Gen. David Petraeus as the head of […]

John Ward July 9, 2010 General Mattis, General Patraeus., US Central Command, war is a hoot

EUROBANK STRESS TESTS: Market slams EU plans as insufficient, lacking substance.

The Slog has been digging around in euromarkets, credit agencies and currency dealers for the last three days. […]

John Ward July 9, 2010 EU, market slamsmethod, not credible, stress-tests

ECONOMY: THE LAST THING AMERICA NEEDS RIGHT NOW IS A RECOVERY.

Letting unreformed economies rip can have predictable consequences – and others less easily imagined. Reform is unlikely to […]

John Ward July 8, 2010 no motivation to reform., US and UK Establishments not hungry, US appalling trade gap

ANALYSIS: IMF PREDICTS SLOWDOWN GROWTH INCREASE UPSIDE RISK CONFUSION.

While the IMF suffers Sore Bottom Syndrome, the Slog gets off the fence As the IMF produced a […]

John Ward July 8, 2010 IMFforecasts growth, prophesies potential disaster, risible media coverage, Slog suggests answer.

An Arabist writes….

In today’s FT, Walter Reich has written a heartfelt piece about being an Israeli, and wondering if the […]

John Ward July 8, 2010 FT, Garbled fanaticism., Isreal, Walter Reich

OPINION: WHY UNEARNED PRIVILEGE IS OUR REAL GLOBAL ENEMY

There are times when even the cynical old observer watches a day’s events and wonders, ‘Is this – […]

John Ward July 8, 2010 Banks, enemies of society., Harman, inherited wealth, TUC, Unearned privilege

US PROPERTY: SHOCK AS OBAMA HOMEOWNERS RESCUE PLAN TREADING WATER

The average user of the Obama administration’s flagship homeowner-assistance programme owes their mortgage lender150% of the property’s value. […]

John Ward July 7, 2010 homeowner scheme a mess, negative equity on huge scale., Obama under pressure, Shahien Narisipour

CHINA & THE US: Beijing forced to deny rumours that it might dump US Securities.

Waters muddied by US Fed’s false estimate of how much American debt China owns. It’s always a little […]

John Ward July 7, 2010 China denies about to dump US debt securities, fishy., US denies size of debt owed to China

TORTURE SCANDAL: SECURITY SERVICES ‘TOLD CABINET SOME CHARGES JUSTIFIED’

‘Liar? Moi?‘ On April 21st this year, The Slog publicly called David Miliband a liar on torture. Now […]

John Ward July 7, 2010 Cabinet briefed, David Cameron statement., David Miliband, Nick Clegg thinks Miliband lied, Torture

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