Like chickens in a pen with a wolf circling around them, the markets are uneasy. They crash and recover day after day. Their problem is that the wolf, ie the problems with the managementof the Euro, will not go away. Now everyone, including the British Government, thinks that there has to be central management of […]
As the politicians return from, sometimes interrupted, holidays and Parliament reassembles, it is worth looking at the general dynamic of the Westminster Village. Before the break it was wall to wall Murdoch, then the riots. Now it will be Libya, eduction, health and the banks. Labour, comfortably in the lead on all the polls before, […]
The summit in Paris meets in much more favourable circumstances than might have seemed likely not long ago. The Gaddafi regime is over for sure. What replaces it is not clear, but it is clear that the Libyan people are united in wanting to rebuild their country and install freedom at its core. The NTC shows […]