Thursday, 9 July 2015

Tory financial policies: too clever by half?

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Yesterday, George Osborne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer – our Minister of Finance – gave the first entirely Tory budget since 199...
Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Remembering the 7/7 attack, in Luton with its constant reminder

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7/7. The tenth anniversary of Britain’s worst terrorist attack since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland. Oddly...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Time to listen to the Greeks?

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The thing about a crisis is that it ’s a great moment  to re-examine some fundamental assumptions about what on Earth you’re up to. And when...
Saturday, 4 July 2015

US Independence Day Thoughts

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Happy Independence Day to my US friends. Today ’s  a good time to think a moment about the main architect of the document whose signing yo...
Thursday, 2 July 2015

Experts do so much to inspire our confidence...

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It’s not immediately obvious how legitimate it is for the wife of a former British Prime Minister to be lobbying a US Secretary of State, wh...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Separated by a common language? Over-united more like. With some odd quirks

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On both sides of the Atlantic, we love to quote the Shaw view that England and America are two countries separated by a common language. A...
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Monday, 29 June 2015

Greece and the EU: who's been betrayed by whom?

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It seems that Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, feels betrayed by the behaviour of the Greek government. The purp...