It had to happen sooner or later. Mark Steyn writes what may be his greatest column ever on (of course) the way Wealth has made us Stupid. Of course the very idea of the greatest ever Steyn column needs some thought. The funniest? The most scathing? The most thought-provoking? The one […]
Which country is in the deeper trouble? This article raises a question. If part of what makes the world go round is a subtle, intangible but real thing called ‘confidence’, is it a good idea to undermine it by looking at the hard facts?
David Cameron ready to veto treaty to shore up euro So says the Indy headline this evening. Hmm. What does the article say? Mrs Merkel has suggested that all European countries need to be willing to surrender more sovereignty to give the EU powers to prevent another Greek-style eurozone crisis. […]
This morning I staggered home at 0200 hours after a horrid journey back from The Hague, where I had been busy training sassy Dutch officials on the dark arts of Writing with Impact. Thanks to the UNITE union’s antics, my BA flight was cancelled so I had to switch to […]
John Redwood MP puts it tersely: Its first task, as stern budget superviser urging member states to rein in deficits, should be to make dramatic reductions in the EU budget. From each member states point of view the money spent on EU matters and projects is of more marginal importance […]
Fine posting by Tim Worstall, looking behind the headline numbers to see what is really going on with EU sugar subsidies: The person handing over the cheque isn’t, necessarily, the person carrying the economic burden of the tax. This can also be true of subsidies: the person cashing the cheque […]
… But far and away the most important thing here is just that, if these concerns about sovereign debt were to spread to a wider range of countries – and I hope the measures taken at the weekend and the measures that will now be taken will stop that and […]
Will the Eurozone move to help the UK if we fall into difficulties? Hell no: Jean-Pierre Jouyet, a former French Europe minister and the current chairman of France’s financial services authority, yesterday predicted only "God would help" a rudderless Britain after it snubbed its euro zone neighbours. "There is not […]
Update: The EU (improbably) as … Dirty Harry. Click through to the wonderful link. * * * * * If I were a diplomat from Mars reporting back to HQ on the wheeler-dealings of the pitiful earthlings in this part of the planet, I’d be starting to suggest that the […]
The grim machinations unfolding in and around Westminster are merely what would happen every election if we had some sort of more ‘proportional’ voting system. In countries where coalition politics is the norm governments can take many weeks, sometimes even months, to form. This wastes time and demoralises the public. It […]
