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EU HEADS FOR BAILOUT CRUNCH AS BUNDESTAG TIES MERKEL’S HANDS

Bundestag to legislate against EU bond-buying and debt buy-backs Angela Merkel may at times seem to be a […]

John Ward February 24, 2011 Euro crisis

Bob Diamond suffers moral defeat in New York.

Bankruptcy Court decides Barclays stole $4.5bn off Lehman Who, me?   Barclays CEO Bob Diamond may be relieved […]

John Ward February 23, 2011 bankers

How Russia’s destabilising strategy backfired in Libya.

Moscow caught on back foot by regime’s collapse Putin….waving goodbye to lucrative trade with Libya A senior Russian […]

John Ward February 23, 2011 libya

HACKGATE: Newscorp, the police, David Cameron, and Elisabeth Murdoch’s birthday party.

Newscorp’s true power in the land is only now emerging Sir Paul Stephenson   New revelations from the […]

John Ward February 23, 2011 hackgate

In the Eye of the Owl

BACKING TOWARDS THE CLIFF In a world where the solids hit the fan from as many as five […]

John Ward February 22, 2011 EU madness

MURDOCH & DAUGHTER: a seemingly odd deal for both sides suddenly makes sense.

Why Elisabeth Murdoch’s husband Matthew Freud put a private plane at David Cameron’s disposal in 2008 Why James […]

John Ward February 22, 2011 hackgate

Cameron and Hague plod through the carnage

100 lines for Muammar El-Gadaffi from Hague Portrait of a British ally After expressing ‘grave concern’ about the […]

John Ward February 21, 2011 Middle East

David Cameron’s Big Society is really another big sell-off.

We need a  more mutual society, not a big one In July 2010, The Slog took Andrew Lansley’s […]

John Ward February 21, 2011 Healthcare

REVIEW: BBC2’s Driven honours Graham Hill.

Graham Hill, uncrowned King of Monaco When Graham Hill became something of a hero for me around 1964, […]

John Ward February 20, 2011 Britain

ANALYSIS: Uncut Diamonds

Uncut’s boneheaded branch occupations are pointless But Barclays’ Bob Diamond is just another snake-oil merchant. There is something […]

John Ward February 20, 2011 bank tax, Uncategorized

‘Social media’: as bad a name as ‘reality television’.

The Facebooks of this world are anti-social media Just about every day now, I go to a couple […]

John Ward February 19, 2011 media control, Uncategorized

PIERS MORGAN: The Larry King verdict.

Piers Morgan is rising without trace in America Romping Arse (anag) In case you missed it, veteran US […]

John Ward February 18, 2011 media

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