Published in The Daily Mail (September 27th, 2012) At home, the talk is all about austerity. One half of the Coalition government holds its annual conference amid talk […]
Aid / Europe / European Union / Iceland
Iceland owes us billions. Why on earth is the EU giving millions of our money in aid?
Published in The Daily Mail (March 8th, 2012) For all its recent problems, Iceland remains a prosperous place. Visiting there a few months ago, I was struck by […]
Europe / Greece
Staring into the abyss
Published in the Daily Mail (February 18th, 2012) When Eleni Nikolaidou agreed to help a university research project, she was asked to plough through 6,000 newspapers from World […]
Europe / European Union / Germany
The little communist who grew up to be the world’s most powerful woman (with the future of capitalism in her hands)
Published in the Daily Mail (November 25th, 2011) Unlike so many modern politicians, Angela Merkel does not believe in placing her private life on public display. We know […]