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SKETCH: France’s finance minister has an interesting grasp of maths and forecasts.

Lagarde….optimist According to French website financefrance, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde ‘doesn’t care much either way about the concerns […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 can she add up, Christine Lagarde, economic forecast a bit odd, France, Sarkozy has a problem.

ANALYSIS: Four tables outlining where New Labour’s strategy went wrong.

Labour didn’t just leave a mess in the Treasury: the economic damage is far greater A senior contact […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 Blair blew an opportunity, Bradshaw and Mandelson, Frank Field, ONS data shows how workforce doing wrong things in the wrong sector, will hutton

EXCLUSIVE: ECB BOARD SPLIT REVEALS MORE CHAOS AT HEART OF EU

ECB’s Novotny….growing concern about Trichet strategy Slog sources confirmed the depth of disagreement inside the EU’s Frankfurt-based Central […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 ecb policy on debt crisis unravelling, eu central bank split at board level, Ewald Novotny, exlcusive, Jurgen Stark.

IRAN: The Urgent vs The Important, No. 317 (Collect the whole series)

Iranian nuclear ambitions and EU machinations are far more important than a not-very-special relationship. Iran has, as we […]

John Ward May 17, 2010 Ahmadinnejad, EU distracted, Foreign Office caught out again., Iranian nuclear deal, UK, US, William Hague

OPINION POLLS: They don’t support either Ed Balls or his views on the Coalition.

It looks as though opinion polls are going in the same 24/7 direction as the news did roughly […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 Balls nowhere., New ICM poll shows David Miliband miles ahead

SOUTH AFRICA: Planet Guardian tries to get a steer on what’s going on.

This weekend’s Guardian feature on South Africa shows how little our media truly understand about the dark continent. […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 corruption, FIFA, freedom is leaving the building., Guardian doesn't get it, mistakes of the West, poverty, South Africa

The Leeber Ladyship Contest

Who will triumph in the bid to find a new Ladyship for Leeber? This was the question Andrew […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 David Miliband, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, New Labour leadership election rules

How will Clegg keep himself busy?

Why every day could well be Cup Final Day for Keeper Clegg A European news site carried this […]

John Ward May 16, 2010 Clegg in non-job, Coalition under unfriendly fire., he's between the sticks, perhaps not

CONUNDRUM XI: IS THE BRITISH VOYAGER GENE DYING OUT?

Without wonder and risk, there can be no discovery and reward. Adopting risk-aversion can only lead to decline. […]

John Ward May 15, 2010 best genes die, Chinese are the coming empire., Empires expand by war, so empires decline

CRASH II: WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT.

Banks fail, governments give them free money. Governments fail, banks put their prices up. Welcome to the Global […]

John Ward May 15, 2010 Crash I involved banks, Crash II involves countries, who bails out countries?

ANALYSIS: Why the Coalition wreckers should butt out.

Without the tribalists now trying to wreck this Coalition, we would never have needed a Coalitionin the first […]

John Ward May 15, 2010 2 to 1 in favour of coalition, extremist meddlers should butt out, hopefully they'll disappear for good.

FRENCH LIFE: The Entente Cordiale in an EU context.

A close chum of ours here told a very funny story over lunch the other day about how […]

John Ward May 14, 2010 but both of us distrust the Germans., The French areas intolerable as the British

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