Bush, Obama, NINJA Loans and the Greek Debt Crisis
By Max Musson: It appears that Greece is teetering in the brink of bankruptcy and if we were to listen to the usual financial pundits of the mass media, it would appear that ‘those Greeks’, those ‘lazy, hot-headed’ Mediterranean types — the kind of people who like to spend all day in the sun, eating olives and kebabs and drinking cheap red wine and ouzo — have gotten themselves in one hell of a financial…
Downton Doubts
By Frederick Dixon: Alright, I confess, I’m a Downton Abbey addict. That cosy soap of life above and below stairs in the very different, but still recognisable, England of nearly a century ago is just what I need when I’m in the mood to blob out in front of the telly. Whether or not it’s a realistic portrayal of that life is another matter; no doubt my grandmothers, both of whom were in service before…