Dow crashes 1000 points in 15 minutes on Greek/EU debt crisis. Wall Street thought it was a computer malfunction. It wasn’t. Um… Source: CNBC
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Meanwhile, In Other News…
Posted in crisis, debt, economy, europe on 06/05/2010 | 4 Comments »
Find Foot, Take Aim, FIRE!
Posted in Brown, campaign, crisis, general election, Labour on 28/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
See what happens if you’re at work and you leave the blogs alone for a couple of hours? You miss something really big. In this case, the sight of Calamity Gord “loose”, as Sir Humphrey might say “in the building” (or, rather, the country) and the subsequent trail of devastation ending in a rail crash [...]
Winning The Argument
Posted in Brown, conservatives, crisis, debt, economy, general election, Labour, polls on 27/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
It should not be seen as much of a coincidence that on the day Greek debt is downgraded to junk, a poll comes out that lends weight to the view that the Tories are winning the key argument in this general election campaign, the economic argument. The only game in town is Europe at the [...]
Temperature’s Rising…
Posted in balls, boulton, crisis, general election, Labour, mandelson, press conference on 27/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
This is what I like to see, and thanks to the superb Daily Politics for spotting it and blogging it so fast. Here we have a some real journalistic pressure being brought to bear by Adam Boulton, and even Nick Robinson, who’s been marginally better of late. One thing’s for certain, it is, as the [...]
Cyanide On The Doorstep
Posted in Brown, crisis, general election, Labour, leadership, third place, times on 27/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Eight More Days… Rachel Sylvester, late of the Telegraph, is in fine form this morning in her Times column. Her article, headlined “Labour is learning it does not have the right to exist”, speculating on the death of Labour as a dominant political force in Britain, is well worth the read. It’s also notable for [...]
This Is How It Ends…
Posted in Brown, cameron, clegg, conservatives, crisis, debates, general election, Labour, polls on 26/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
Not with a bang, with a bust-up. The anti-Brown press – which is just about all of it, isn’t it? – is turning the screw on Labour today. Apart from the Mirror, of course, but no one reads that, there are reports coming in all over the place of recriminations beginning for what has been [...]
EUseless!
Posted in aviation, Brown, cameron, conservatives, crisis, european union, Labour, libdems, mandelson on 19/04/2010 | 2 Comments »
Not Iceland – This ash is dangerous So the Telegraph is reporting what quite a number of stranded holiday makers have no doubt suspected for quite a while, namely that the EU organisation that plunged the entire continent into the pre-Wright brothers era so emphatically was basing its decision on yet another dodgy Met Office [...]
Blair Knew
Posted in Blair, Brown, brown. recession, bust, campaigning conservatives, crisis, economy, general election, housing, Labour on 10/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I nearly missed this extraordinary piece buried in the business pages of yesterday’s Telegraph by half-decent economics commentator (and there aren’t many of those) Edmund Conway. The thrust of the piece, supported by an interesting flashback to the days when Blair was, apparently, Labour’s City spokesman, just when the ’87 bubble burst, is that a [...]
Finally, Some Real Perspective On Darling’s Larceny Budget
Posted in Brown, budget, crisis, Darling, debt, economy, general election, Labour, lies, recession on 25/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Randall, as usual, has said precisely what needed to be said (ie: the truth) about the implications of Labour’s latest act of political violence against the country we somehow collectively permitted it to ruin once again. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m a grown-up (sort of) so I can take a bunch of socialist [...]
Where’s A Semi House-Trained Polecat When You Need One
Posted in British Airways, Brown, crisis, Labour, strikes, unions on 15/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earnestly deploring a strike is quite different from dispatching a semihouse-trained polecat against the pickets to save a business and its workers’livelihoods. This is a David Blackburn quote about Brown’s latest bout of dishonest dithering, this time over a real doozy of a conflict of interest for Labour over the BA/Unite dispute. The dishonesty is [...]
