not born yesterday archives 2006-2009
Last Few Months
Who's going to wipe the patient's bottom?
Gordon down-climbs, Dave changes colour daily
The Establishment denial of Gay reality
How Mandy came to a sticky end
Is the Lord of the Flies caught in a Downing Street web?
Buffet swaps cowboy outfits for train sets
Blanket security is just a security blanket
Economy, bear rally about to reverse
Fings ain't wot they used to be
Stampeding elephants in the room
Taxing the UK holiday out of existence
How to join a huge secret society
Mervyn King, dangerous radical
How Nick Griffin drowned (hooray!) in a swamp of correctness (boo!)
Peter Hain's inability to add up
Darling's shock at the -4% horror
You read it here first
'Every phone-call, text, email and website visit will be available for monitoring by government bodies....the firms involved will be reimbursed at a cost to the taxpayer of £2 billion...'
Telegraph, 11.10.09
'The European Commission is on a collision course with France, with a major row brewing over when Paris will have to rein in spending.'
Expatica website, 10.11.09
'Britain's policy response to sub-prime...will do little to spur recovery, and will ultimately be hugely damaging...'
Telegraph, 8.11.09
'The top prosecutor has demanded an end to the use of police cautions to deal with thousands of serious assaults every year amid concern that the justice system is failing to rein in violent offenders.'
Times, 9.11.09
'Only 31 percent of respondents to a poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers in the U.S., Europe and Asia see investment opportunities, down from 35 percent in the previous survey in July. Almost 40 percent in the latest quarterly survey, the Bloomberg Global Poll, say they are still hunkering down. U.S. investors are even more cautious, with more than 50 percent saying they are in a defensive crouch.'
Bloomberg 2.11.09