Daddy Brown puts them to sleep (Bizarre photos vol 1)

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The show of shows

You don’t get a political night bigger than this. It’s not just an Americn election, it’s not just the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency, it’s the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency and be starting (fingers crossed) the Obama presidency, a black man with a completely un-American approach [...]

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What’s the point of the economic summit? Anyone?

The White House today announced the celebration of the economic summit in New York in mid-November. The G-20 countries are meeting up to design a new structure for capitalism. It definitely sounds glamorous, it sounds like a 21st century Bretton Woods.
But there are two key reasons  why this economic summit is complete rubbish.
The first reason [...]

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Obama v McCain debate: an analysis

Yesterday I struggled to stay up to watch the first US presidential debate on CNN (unlike in 2004 BBC 1 wasn’t showing it) but I managed to watch it all and certainly wasn’t too impressed. Both candidates stuck to their messages and there was little interaction between them, more than a dialogue it was a [...]

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The big picture: the economy

Two days ago the Spanish finance minister, Pedro Solbes, wrote an article for the FT in which he explained the situation of the Spanish economy and the way the government plans to face the current crisis.
This article should be a must read for Alistair Darling and his entire department.
When an economic crisis hits home there [...]

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On Labour’s badly needed new message

As promised yesterday I would like to throw out there a couple of ideas for a new political message for Labour. Now that Brown is finally taking some time out (and hopefully getting some good sleep to clear his head) I hope No. 10 staffers are working hard on the new message and calendar to [...]

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A loss to the blogosphere

Reading the Murcia local daily yesterday on the pool side away from the mundane noise come news of the death of Olive Riley, the world’s oldest blogger.
Olive Riley, died 108 years old in New South Wales, Australia. Her blog became an international hit after it was launched in February 2007. Her blog doesn’t seem to [...]

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The census of shame

The so-called Maroni census, named after Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, is the latest and gravest attempt in Europe to haunt inmigrants and violate their human rights.
The Maroni census created by the Berlusconi government aims at recording the identities of all Gypsies in Italy, but not just their identity also their ethnicity and religion. The [...]

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How in tune are you with your party leader?

Today’s Spanish daily Publico has an article on the compatibility between the Zapatero government and its electorate in terms of political positioning.
Zapatero hasn’t been doing too well lately due to the economic crisis. But when those that voted for him in the May 9 general election were asked how close where they to Zapatero’s political [...]

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Interview with Spanish PM in the FT

Prime Minister Zapatero met the FT Spanish correspondent to talk about the current economic crisis and European energy and inmigration policies. You can read the interview here.

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