Category Archives: Politics

Riot On, Greeks!

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Carps

Ever wondered why the French and the Germans are so keen to stop Greece defaulting? That’s a lot of ouch in anyone’s money. This has gone beyond “24 hours to save the Euro!” and is now about naked national interests. … Continue reading →

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Greek Debt Default: Here Comes the Tidal Wave….

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Carps

So Greece is, finally, hitting the buffers. Interest rates on money loaned to the Greeks is now 30%, which basically means no-one will lend to them. The proposed “bailout” (another trifling matter of some tens of billions of Euros) is … Continue reading →

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Bring me the head of Chris Huhne.

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Carps

So. Let me get it right. The idea of a second Kyoto Treaty – a binding agreement about a lowering of CO2 emissions over a set time frame – is dead. France, Russia, Japan and Canada have declared that they … Continue reading →

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I’m out of my lunchbox, I really am!

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Carps

The trouble when dealing with mad people is that they don’t recognise that they are actually mad. When you try to point out that bananas don’t actually run the bus time table, or that Prince Philip isn’t really living in … Continue reading →

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Ban the Burqa?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Carps

Just when I’d finalised my plans for a European wide roll-out of my Burqa King franchise idea, the jolly old French go and throw a spanner in the works by banning the burqa in public. And they call us perfidious? … Continue reading →

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Just a matter of timing…

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Carps

A while back I gave Portugal “a couple of weeks, tops” to avoid tipping the euro over into its final crisis. So again, prognostication is shown to be a bitch, as we’re now 2 months over my self-imposed deadline. But … Continue reading →

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