If anyone needs something different from life, and/or wants to hear me talk at some length about my time in Poland and other issues, here are details of my long interview last week with London’s excellent English/Polish radio station Radio Orla.fm. Broadcast tomorrow (Sunday) and again on Monday, and available thereafter […]
A fine expression of amazement and wonder at one of the highlights of this majestic Tottenham season:
Remember the Copenhagen Summit climate change debacle? The terrific Spiegel Online has fascinating material said to be extracted from tape-recordings of the key meeting between Merkel/Brown/Sarkozy/Obama and the Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister, there because the Chinese Prime Minister did not deign to join the gathering: Now, for the first time, […]
Here is the UK election exit poll as published at 2200 last night: 10.00pm: Here is the exit poll: Conservatives: 307 seats Labour: 255 Lib Dems: 59 BBC and chattering class consternation! This can’t be right. The Lib Dems have … bombed?!? The final result (almost): Party Predicted seats Seats […]
Some random thoughts on latest dramatic developments in the UK, all the more random for lack of sleep. First the Really Good News. As for the feverish politics, note the following. It is not only that the new Parliament is ‘hung’, ie no party has an overall majority. It is […]
So here I am at the LBC newsroom on Leicester Square in London. The ‘story’ seems to be a number of complaints that in some places the polls closed before all voters there had voted. Hard to imagine that this happened on any scale that mattered. Otherwise my task is […]
Off I go to vote, en route to the LBC election special starting at midnight tonight. A senior (very senior) civil servant and his wife told me the other day that they had been firm New Labour Blairite people – liking the idea of smart, inclusive but tough approaches to domestic […]
I cravenly sat here gibbering with nerves rather than listen to the radio commentary of Manchester City v Tottenham: the key game of the season with the winner making it in to the Champions League qualifiers. And … hurrah! Which reminds me of the 1981 Cup Final replay. An evening […]
My thoughts on that subject are over at Business and Politics: As we can see in the current case, Angela Merkel is grappling with the primitive logic of phony EU solidarity. She is trying to establish the proposition that in return for enjoying the benefits of German discipline in the […]
With Nick Drew and others, I’ll be joining Iain Dale on LBC tomorrow night from midnight through to 0600 on Friday to offer thoughts on the UK elections. My niche will be foreign thoughts/angles. If any readers out there – especially people overseas – want to send in any observations […]
