Germany

My favourite part of the Germany-Argentina match this afternoon

July 3, 2010

was when the British sportscaster on the BBC sees the camera linger on Charlize Theron and sez: I wonder whose wife that is There’s always a wife Please. I mean, I know most sportscasters probably live in a very isolated universe with chauvenistic tunnel-vision, but honestly. Oh, and seeing Germany clobber Argentina 4-0 was also [...]

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Twenty years ago today

November 9, 2009

… I was sitting in a pub in West Germany with a handful of friends when someone came over and told us [rather excitedly] that the Berlin Wall was open and masses of people were streaming through. We could hardly believe it. Granted, it wasn’t entirely a surprise, since there had been a leak in [...]

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A small glimmer of sunshine amongst the Icesave gloom and doom

June 30, 2009

Amidst the general furor over Icesave in the last few weeks and months, there is a related matter that has gone almost unnoticed: that of Kaupthing Edge. Buoyed by the runaway success of Landsbanki’s Icesave accounts, which collected a whopping 4.4 billion pounds in its first 12 months of operations in the UK [and a [...]

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