In May last year, the Washington Post ran a fairly typical piece about what the paper perceives as an unjustified conservative mania regarding President Joe Biden’s son. While those in the US worried “about such things as inflation and the war in Ukraine, the top concerns of congressional Republicans can be ranked roughly as follows:…
I previously wrote a column marveling at the success of the Bidens in pulling off one of the neatest tricks in political history. I analogized it to how Houdini used to make his 10,000-pound elephant Jennie disappear on a stage in front of a live audience. The media and political establishment is now striving to top…
Now that we’re post-FOMC and ECB we have a clear playing field for another 6 weeks. The US debt ceiling theater is now center-stage along with completing the transition away from LIBOR, which will become an anachronism at the end of Q2. SOFR will be the law of the land in the US come July….
The beating heart of the EU institutions is greed and self-gratification either by hook or by crook, Martin Jay writes. Just how important would you say the European Parliament is, both on a local (European) level and internationally? In a pro-European Belgian newspaper in around 2001 I remember reading the results of a survey of…
While I’ve been a big fan of Jeremy Clarkson over the years, I’ve never been proud of him before. Hero worship and celebrity go hand in hand and it’s a dangerous game to ascribe motives beyond self-interest to any celebrity. But in Clarkson’s case he may have just done something worthy of that. Clarkson is…
It’s probably far-fetched and overzealous to think about doing away with the EU altogether. But ditching the parliament might be a good idea. It’s probably far-fetched and overzealous to think about doing away with the EU altogether. But ditching the parliament might be a good idea. Here we go again. Another graft scandal in Brussels….
