Here is a long and generally brilliant analysis of the Eurozone’s predicament by Edward Hugh. I especially like the way he explains deftly the hard realities and policy paradoxes we all now face, in one hard-hitting paragraph after another: It is not simply a question of “closet” (or open) eurosceptics […]
That letter from President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel to Herman van Rompuy (President of the European Council) has shaken rather than stirred the word’s financial markets. I thought it worth a detailed look. But Protesilaos Stavrou has done it for me. Here is his thorough and interesting fisking by someone close […]
Lots of things are incredibly complicated and yet oddly simple when you strip down the issues to the basics. Such as the Eurozone drama. Amidst all the swirling technical/clever analysis of bonds, treaty provisions, sovereign debts and so on, Marshall Auerback gives us this lively thought: Germany is in effect […]
Current Drudge Front Page: WHHHHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!DOW PLUNGES ANOTHER 419 POINTS
That used to be the slogan for corrupt Oxford University student politics elections, and for all I know still is. If you want to vote for (or against) this blog in the Total Politics 2011 Blog Survey, press on and do so. Read the rules first. You must vote for […]
Crawf Minor is not blonde, female or especially buxom. So he probably won’t feature in the sexist mass media A-level celebrations/commiserations orgy. Yet he has cause to celebrate this morning: 4 x A* Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry 2 x A Advanced Further Maths, Latin Next stop: Cambridge University in […]
My latest piece over at Dale & Co looks at a possible spiral down into the next global conflagration: In short, the planet’s legal and moral order looks and feels weak. For the first time in centuries the USA and Europe are increasingly unable to define, let alone set the […]
I have just voted in the 2011 TP Blog Survey. This in principle is a commendable effort intended in part to help pull together the UK’s master-list of UK political bloggers, for anyone who’s interested. But any lists require some sort of arbitrary categorisation (more or less logical or not). […]
++Update++ A warm welcome to readers from Instapundit and The Corner. (There’s nothing like an unexpected Instalanche for improving one’s meagre August web-stats) * * * * * Mark Steyn has some savage things to say about contemporary British life. No doubt he exaggerates. Or does he? How would we know? Thus: The […]
Here’s a comment which I have just posted over at Anna Raccoon’s place, responding to various people who kindly offered their thoughts on an edited version of my longer Commentator piece about the riots. Thus my added points: As the diverse comments above and the wider tsunami of media ‘analysis’ go […]
