Author: Vivian Lewis

  Back in London again, we managed to get out of Paris despite an unannounced railroad strike by the French cheminots, which happily did not affect the Eurostar cross-Channel line. The British railroad union promised to...

The run-up of sterling was halted today with the announcement of an election May 6. the market fears a ‘hung’ parliament with no party in control. Meanwhile Australia raised its interest rates another quarter percent...

There will be no blog Friday or Monday. The visit of Russian Prime Minister Putin to Venezuela to discuss world affairs with Hugo Chavez sounds like an April Fool’s Day joke, but is serious. The two countries have...

  My husband commented on the Serbian parliamentary apology for the 1995 slaughter at Srebrenica, the single largest massacre in Europe since the Nazi defeat, in which 8000 Bosniak (Moslem) men and boys were slaughtered....

  Today’s troubled countries are Russia, where there has been a terrorist bombing on the Moscow subway, and Ireland, where the global hedge fund travelling circus has arrived to help push its weak banking sector into...

Today is the wedding so I am quickly writing to paid subs with hot news. Then I have to dress to kill (and keep warm; it is freezing cold in the supposed London spring.) *Royal Bank of Scotland is not going to pay back holders...

Angela Merkle has capitulated in her own manner. The International Monetary Fund, with its conditionality, political neutrality, and experience negotiating with debtor countries, will provide the bail-out money to Greece. The...