Day: 28 June 2011

This makes little sense. The purpose of the entire UN/NATO operation is to protect civilians. Several, indeed most, participating countries want Gaddafi gone, but that is not the official aim of the undertaking. The quickest way to end the bloodshed is to hold peace talks so that the Libyan people, who have grown tired of killing […]

Beneath the high drama of politics and protest, there are, beneath the surface, currents flowing through the Euro crisis, presently centred on Greece, which give an altered perspective to those who delve. First, the bail out of Greece is actually a bail out of, mostly European, banks. Many would be in very serious trouble if […]