Between the lines

The Sunday Telegraph has reported that Britain’s Foreign Office is advising the majority of its overseas embassies to draw up plans to help expats should the collapse of the Euro turn explosive, a senior minister has revealed that Britain is now planning on the basis that a euro collapse is matter of time. British embassies

According to the tenets of Vodou, a dead person can be revived by a bokor, or sorcerer. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. “Zombi” is also another name of the Vodou snake lwa Damballah Wedo, of Niger–Congo origin; it is akin to the Kikongo word

On Tuesday the UK’s ONS (official national statistics) released the latest budget deficit figures and the current coalition greeted the new figures with the kind of relish last witnessed when the UK Chancellor received hearty pats on the back from his front benchers in Parliament for announcing the reduction of the civil service by 25%,

“Failure among the super committee to reach an agreement could send the S&P 500 down 9.5 percent from last week’s closing level to 1,100, The failure would reflect poorly on Congress. It would showcase as was the case in August the inability of elected officials to act in the long-term best interest of all Americans.”

Let’s shift the current focus and concentrate on the UK’s financial ills, as opposed to the E.U.’s or the USA’s. The UK’s mainstream media have adopted a rather ‘Olde Englishe’ smug and arrogant attitude towards the travails of the E.U. over recent weeks. The spin, that the lowest common denominator U.K. press outlets put on

There are times when you read some stats. contained in an article or press release and it leaves you dumbstruck as to how broken and dislocated the financial system appears to be, particularly in the USA. Before we concentrate on the latest USA child poverty figures it’s worth noting another series of stats. The number

It’s impossible not to admire the bravado, the implied statement and indeed the ironic humour of the union who killed the power to a Greek ministry building on Wednesday. The Greek public electricity workers’ union flipped the switch on the country’s health ministry building in Athens in order to protest over the massive unpaid state

“Non, je ne regrette rien” meaning “No, I’m not sorry for anything”, is a French song composed by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire. It was written in 1956, and is best known through its 1960 recording by Édith Piaf. Piaf dedicated her recording of the song to the French Foreign Legion. At the