Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category

June 18th, 2011

I remember sitting in a hotel bar in Nevada watching NBC pollmeister Chuck Todd state confidently that Barack Obama would lose the state in the 2008 Presidential election because “The Republican Party always overperforms there”. A Mexican-American businessman with whom I had been chatting during commercials responded “The Nevada he knows isn’t Nevada any more”. [...]

May 29th, 2011

A gallery of designer pylons and a British government pylon competition.

November 4th, 2010

Bumbling Greek terrorists and American electors

August 19th, 2010

Olives grown in hedges.

January 12th, 2010

Whatever Manzi thinks, Europe does not stop at the Urals,.

March 23rd, 2009

The doom of Jersey and other tax havens,

February 18th, 2009

Why is Europe so wet on stimulus?

February 9th, 2009

The USA could do with a better far left like in France.

December 12th, 2008

Fiscal rectitude worked so well in Weimar Germany.

November 18th, 2008

The Spanish model for increasing organ donation: it’s the organisation, stupid