Clegg, Cameron, And Europe: The Big Kerfuffle
What a kerfuffle, eh? The press do love a bit of a fight. Most journalism is about disagreement, difference and dissent. It creates drama and drives a story. In general, […]
Tag Archives: Europe
More Carrot, Less Stick
I’m not entirely comfortable with the big beasts’ handling of the Eurozone crisis in Athens. According to Greek Prime Minister (at the time of writing, at least!), Angela Merkel […]
Eurozone: Return Of The Visigoths
Reading the newspapers this morning, you might get the impression that the European monetary crisis had somehow been resolved by the standard overnight marathon meeting of the Union’s financial ministers. […]
Cameron’s Euro-Headache
Sometimes in life, it’s nice to know that some things just don’t change. I know, for instance, that there’s always a bed for me at my mum’s house. I know […]
The Merry Men (And A Monkee)
Tuesday was a pretty momentous day that not many people even noticed. No, Dear Reader, I don’t mean that it was Pancake Day. Nor do I mean that it was […]
The Dominoes Begin To Tumble….
The Irish bailout looks to be failing and the Irish government looks to be falling. At least that’s the way it looks now. It might be completely different in 20 minutes. But for now at […]
What Osborne Isn’t Telling You
Do you, Dear Reader, listen to the BBC’s Today programme at all? I try to when I can, and you should too. It’s not every day I get to listen, […]
Entente austérité
The last time France and the UK signed a treaty of shared defence was in 1947 in the aftermath of the second World War. Back then it was all about […]
Cameron’s EU issues
I’ve just been on my break at work. I had a Crunchie and a can of Diet Coke. That’s not at all relevant to the blog post, but I like to […]
Europe casts a long shadow
Some things are predictable. These things include: 1 - If Newcastle United are having a run of good form, then a good player will get a serious injury. 2 – In school, […]
