Monthly Archives: May 2018

Headline:Argentine peso sinks to new low as sell-off resumes Sub-headline: Decline comes despite central bank raising interest rates to 40 per cent 4  hours ago Markets need to see a radical tightening in fiscal policy in order to stabilise the … Continue reading →

As a reader of this excerpt of Ronan Farrow’s book War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence on Richard Holbrooke, he must have a prodigious memory, or be like Samuel Pepys spending many hours recording … Continue reading →

I’ve only read one of Vargas Llosa books ‘The Temptation of the Impossible Victor Hugo and Les Misérables’ published in English translation in 2007 by Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8358.html I had read the Penguin paperback of Les Misérables , and found Vargas … Continue reading →

With not too many changes this paragraph could very well be said of many politicians from Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and Thatcher. Even Tony Blankly used to engage in the rhetoric of resentment, when his usual political bluster was exhausted: as … Continue reading →