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Can accounting standards save the G20?

The report highlights that Spanish banks and credit institutions have been able to use dynamic provisioning since June 2000. The report states the Spanish model ‘aims to ensure that the aggregate annual provisioning – including the dynamic provision – ...

From IAIN MARTIN, VNUNet.com,  1 Apr 2009

Barack Obama advert: he is unstoppable

A selection of cross-generational, multi-racial, even post-racial, images is patched together wonderfully. Here he is with several old white people, and look here he is again with another old white lady: this time he’s laughing at her jokes and hugging ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Why did David Cameron pick Dominic Grieve?

It was a very odd choice, and not just because, as James Forsyth argued, he has some rather strange views and is not the best of media perfomers. There are times when a little distance from an appointment means it makes sense, as when one steps back ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron,  Dominic Grieve,  Chris Grayling,  Greg Clark,  UK Conservative Party

EU gets ready to teach the Irish a lesson

Fraser at Coffee House highlights Wolfgang Münchau's piece in the FT  on how ratification of Lisbon will be forced through without the Irish (who must be punished for having the temerity to vote no). If you get the time, please read Wolfgang’s rather ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  16 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Albert Camus,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Tony Blair

EU referendum: Thank you, Ireland

The entire business and political elite of Ireland ganged up to tell their countrymen that they should vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty. Failure to comply would risk outraging the EU elite and integrationist maniacs who want to impose their ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  David Davis

Thatcher: will we debate her in 500 years time?

Pearson has, quite late in the day for a recovering leftie, discovered the point of Thatcher and written a column today which culminates in the following: The change of life Margaret Thatcher brought about in Britain will be debated for the next 500 ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Margaret Thatcher,  Ronald Reagan

42 days: did Brown meet Bob Spink?

Adam Boulton at Boulton & Co reports that Gordon Brown wooed UKIP MP and Tory exile Bob Spink to ask for his vote on 42 days. He hears they met one on one, which if true illustrates the ridiculous situation the PM has got himself into: pleading for ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Bob Spink,  Gordon Brown,  Margaret Thatcher

The euro would be a disaster for Britain

However, he invited a response and Fraser at Coffee House was first up. I popped over to discuss it with Ed Conway and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the other side of the Telegraph office. Here are five reasons Britain is best out of the euro (especially ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008

Secretary of State, we have Andrew Rawnsley on the line for you

Full coverage of UK Politics Imagine you’re a cabinet minister. You’ve been round the block a few times, dodged enough bullets from the press and (even though you never get any credit for it) been smart enough to survive near the top of British ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Andrew Rawnsley,  Gordon Brown

David Cameron: is he dying his hair?

Full coverage of UK politics A small postscript to the fuss over David Cameron’s hair-do last week. A reader writes in to say that journalists are missing the point (that’s never happened before, of course) in focusing on the Tory leader’s disastrous 24 ...

From IAIN MARTIN, The Telegraph,  9 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Cameron

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