Some real signs of progress on the BBC tonight - a programme about literature in primetime BBC2, with an Arena this time about James Joyce's Ulysees, which I haven't the channe doing since … (View Post)

Strangely that's something I would actually agree with her about, if that's right, and she doesn't want to make the restriction too early. Several other European countries with full le… (View Post)

Very difficult to define where one ends and the other begins, however. Brazil did relatively well under Lula, for instance, both on strong social indicators, and, broadly, on its economy. Was that so… (View Post)

Borrowing costs are still passable, but Truss better hope that the IFS is wrong in their assertion that the combination of the "essential one-off " cost of the baiout, and the "permane… (View Post)

If only Greece was doing the same, and Italy before had done. There's still miles of coastline in Greece like this, but the way things are going, in 20 years there won't be. (View Post)