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Thursday 8 January 2009

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Reykjavik on Thames

The old analytical tools which helped us understand the post-ERM era (ie, inflation fixation) are no use. They weren’t any use in post-globalisation era, hence the bubble (and the bust). A new era is upon us now, so until we understand it we can’t dismiss anyone as a maverick.

An escalation

A dangerous escalation of the Middle Eastern conflict this morning, as rockets are fired into northern Israel from Lebanon. As...

The idiocy of the ECB

So, it has all ended in tears. Kevin Pietersen’s resignation came even sooner than his worst enemies would have predicted...

Ed Balls debuts the apprenticeships Brownie

Ed Balls never gets enough credit for the Brownies that he cooks up. One was served today, when he spent...

Labour, the do nothing until after the holidays party

The vacation habits of the shadow cabinet are under discussion today principally because everyone thinks that one holidaying member will...

Arts

Shakespeare it ain’t

The Cordelia Dream
Wilton’s Music Hall

Sunset Boulevard
Comedy

Winter wonders

Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 26 April

Books

Getting the detail right

Evelyn Waugh told Nancy Mitford he was ‘surprised to find’ that Proust ‘was a mental defective. He has absolutely no sense of time.’

Was the Abdication necessary?

The Eagle & the Crown, by Frank Prochaska

Style & Travel

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees

The natural order of things

Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

Matt Ridley