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July 4, 2006

Culture

Italy?!?

by Doug Merrill

Bleh.

June 27, 2006

Life

We’re Ghana miss you

by Emmanuel

They clearly deserved a lot better than going down 3-0 today.
Too bad Essien was not on the field : the lack of skilled shooters on Ghana’s part (and an horrendous call by an otherwise pretty good referee) doomed what could have been a tremendous upset.
Here’s hoping Spain or France send this cocky, overrated Brazilian [...]

May 26, 2006

Culture

Stanley Kurtz….

by Jasper Emmering

…is at it again.
Gay marriage undermines marriage….okay, I admit it. I’m a cranky, stick-in-the-mud conservative who keeps making the same tired old point.
And again, he fails to provide proof, sticking instead to his familiar method of talking out of his ass.
So, once more I get to remind people that Stanley Kurtz is a quack who [...]

May 21, 2006

Currencies

The “Teuro” Dissected

by Alex Harrowell

Did prices really go up when the Euro arrived? The public mind, or at least the dominant media discourse, says they did. The inflation indices say they didn’t, or at least the prices that did go up were outweighed by the ones that went down. This paradox may have been solved. Erich Kirchler, of Vienna [...]

May 17, 2006

Europe and the world

Signs of Summer

by Doug Merrill

The first banners for the coming World Cup have been hung here in Munich. The stadium that will host the opener on June 6 has been finished for more than a Bundesliga season; the autobahn enlargement is done; and I think even the renovations on the main subway station will be finished on time. Teutonic [...]

May 13, 2006

Economics and demography

Forget It Jacques, It’s Clearstream

by Alex Harrowell

It never stops when your blog has to cover an entire continent. Hardly had the Italian left taken AFOE’s advice to get Giorgio Napolitano elected as president than the Clearstream scandal in France was getting out of hand, and nothing at all on the blog! Fortunately, at the moment the news from that quarter is [...]

April 20, 2006

Economics and demography

The Plural of “Anecdote” Is Not “Data”, It’s “Blog”

by Alex Harrowell

Overheard in the bar, Paris-Toulouse TGV near Bordeaux…
A French saloon bar bore, who has apparently just returned from a spell abroad, is in the process of berating “national decline” to the barman. Apparently these students are deluded, irresponsible fools, France is in the Middle Ages, and two of the escalators weren’t working at Montparnasse [...]

March 19, 2006

Culture

Theatre of Citizenship

by Alex Harrowell

Everyone’s been terribly worried about France. First of all, last autumn’s carburning outbreak saw a lot of people who really ought to know better gathering to hail the end of days and the Islamofascist conquest of Eurabia, or something. Now, the students are out on the streets to protest the government’s new labour laws, and [...]

January 25, 2006

Life

You must all be very kind to Tobias today

by Mrs Tilton

Regionalist tensions in Spain, murderously cold weather and French nuclear stroppiness are all important enough in their way, I suppose, but let’s not lose sight of what truly matters: Bayern Munich move ahead to the semi-finals of the DFB Cup. It will be scant comfort to Tobias, I fear, that his boys from Mainz 05 [...]

January 24, 2006

Life

Sure is Cold

by Douglas Muir

Eastern Europe is currently enjoying its coldest weather since 1979. Temperatures in Moscow have been below minus 20 C (that’s minus 5 Fahrenheit for our American readers) for a week straight now, with regular visits to minus 30 (minus 22 Fahrenheit). In Bucharest, where we live, it’s currently minus 9 Celsius; that will [...]

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