Economic And Social - Electoral Brinkmanship

As we edge toward the US Presidential election day on November the third ....

Same Old Politics In The "New Normal" ....

... the political stakes grow higher.

Elections: "Light Touch Financial Regulation"

In case any British Voters who have lost their jobs, are wondering how the UK came to end up in such a stupendous mess, I provide this reminder of Gordon Browns speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in 2005. 

Ball and Brown - Undertakers

Now we are in recession, Gordon Brown is casting about, to lay the blame on the Americans (without naming them out loud), and certainly is not accepting his role in the UK's problems.

Happy Christmas?

I didn't blog on Christmas Day as I was too busy cooking (for one.... sigh), but I have looked at the news this morning, and sadly the world still spins...... 

Guns And Santa Costume

and the inhumanity of mankind still shines out .....