As the FT has noted this morning: Eurozone inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in May, bolstering the case for the European Central Bank to
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I am aware that this post was published in error on Thursday evening without the video to which it relates. This time it has it.
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This podcast was recorded on Friday for the Echo Chamber podcast, now run by Tony Groves, in Dublin. We were discussing UK themes on this
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Viktor Orbán has been defeated in Hungary. After sixteen years in power, during which authoritarian rule, rampant corruption, the systematic dismantling of Hungary’s free press
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Viktor Orbán’s time as Prime Minister of Hungary has come to an end. As the Guardian have reported: With 98.74% of the vote counted, Magyar’s
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Markets are celebrating a Middle East peace deal. They shouldn’t be. This is not peace; it is a US strategic retreat, repackaged as diplomacy. And
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Heath Cox Richardson’s ‘Letter from an American’ is worth reading this morning, as it invariably is. As she noted: The Trump administration’s white nationalist project
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This week, the world exploded, but what really shocked me wasn’t Trump. Trump was predictable. The chaos was published in advance. Project 2025 made the
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A  commentator on this blog noted yesterday that: “I’ve always thought a federated Europe is inevitable and (in my mind) desirable… the alternative is that
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