Last week’s seminar at the Frontline Club asked a very pertinent question of the Occupy London movement pitched outside St. Paul’s. What do you want? I was surprised to see from the show of journalistic hands that the majority in the room did not know exactly what the protesters are camped out for, though, given [...]
Yesterday’s news that the Met is giving its officers access to plastic bullets for tomorrow’s student demonstration is, obviously, pretty disturbing. I’d guess it’s pretty unlikely they’ll actually be used – making a big announcement to the press two days before the event looks a lot more like an attempt to warn off any would-be [...]
A week can be a long time in the debasement of politics. Just last Sunday, Prime Minister Papandreou appeared to salvage a smidgeon of honor for his government, when he announced that the Greek people would be given a referendum on the austerity-bailout package. For two years the Greek people have struggled with mounting pain [...]
Back in 2009 Greece was in trouble, but its troubles were hardly top of the agenda. It gives me no pleasure to report that the predictions I made back then have been proven utterly right. Back then EU commissioners ordered Greece to reduce its deficit from 13% to 3% in just two years – an [...]
OK I will admit it. The telegraph blogs section is now part of my daily routine. The sad fact is that the telegraph do blogging better than other mainstream media outfits. It helps that they seem to actually get what blogging is – i.e. more than just another format for publishing the same kind of [...]
