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Tag Archives: eu
EU: Union or Disintegration
Ultimately, it seems to me, the fate of the UK smoking ban is entirely dependent on the fate of the EU. So what’s going to happen to the EU? A week back, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Daily Telegraph wrote this: … Continue reading
War of the Worlds
For some reason – or maybe no particular reason at all – last night I remembered Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast from the 1930s. Some listeners heard only a portion of the broadcast and, in the atmosphere … Continue reading
Planet of the Dreamers
Sometime back in the 1960s I read a sci-fi novel called Planet of the Dreamers. It was about a planet on which everybody was plugged into dream machines. Only it turned out in the end that their nightmarish dreams weren’t … Continue reading
Tobacco Display Ban
A tobacco display ban has come into force in my local Co-op. Was 1 March the date it was supposed to start? The shelves behind the counter had been covered over by a couple of black sliding doors with “Ask … Continue reading
The Indifferent Antismokers
Several other people have covered this one already. Anti-smoking campaigns and laws have turned smokers into a despised underclass, a study by a Department of Health adviser warned yesterday. It said smokers have come to be seen as disgusting and … Continue reading
Callous Cruelty
A couple of quotes. First from Daniel Hannan: During a TV debate with a Greek Socialist MEP this morning, I suggested that Greece wouldn’t begin to recover until it decoupled, defaulted and devalued. The two biggest sectors of the Greek … Continue reading
Athens Burning
It all just seems to be getting darker and darker. This is a ‘postcard from Athens’ via Zero Hedge (click to for larger image). Matters may be coming to a head. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph: It is clear that Germany’s finance … Continue reading
The Disintegrating European Union
The Greek police have sent an extraordinary letter to the Troika supervising the austerity measures being imposed upon Greece: Greece’s largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country’s European Union and International Monetary Fund … Continue reading
Conservatism and Change
I came across an article by Peter Oborne in the Telegraph a couple of days ago. It was about David Hockney’s new exhibition of landscape paintings. I thought they were a tad garish myself, but I could see that they were painted … Continue reading
FU Too
These people are experts. They know what they’re doing. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up one day soon, and Greece will have defaulted on its debts, and revived the drachma, and half the banks in Europe will have … Continue reading
