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Who is the biggest loser of the London Olympics: UKIP or the Daily Mail?
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(This is an unusually short post, just a quick thought I had watching the Olympics.) British olympians or TeamGB have done wonderfully, coming third in the medal rankings. It’s not only a superb result, but a great moral boost to a country figh...
EU should keep calm and carry on muddling through
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Will anything meaningful come out of today’s EU summit? (aka ‘informal dinner of the members of the European Council’ in eurospeak) Markets, analysts and even foreign politicians (see Obama) urged EU leaders to set aside the pieceme...
Sarkozy to profit most from Cameron blunder
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Sarkozy is about to realize De Gaulle’s dream rebooted : an intergovernmental Europe, without Britain. The cherry on the cake is the US backing to this new Europe much to the detriment of the UK-US special relationship. Though the media has lo...
Cameron has just destroyed the City
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While Europe’s house is on fire, the British Prime Minister tried to loot some of the family silver and sneak out through the back door. The very fact that he expected to get away with it shows that he is no Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile the Bri...
