The Economist

The Economist – finger on the pulse.

Dewi on May 14, 2011, 7:55 am | Readers 33

I’ve subscribed to the Economist for twenty years. It’s wonderful on the Kurds in Turkey, the latest PNV election results in the Basque Country and anything happening in Quebec. Yesterday it gave us the honour of an article: The double act continues. You get: “In elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly on May 5th, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein consolidated their positions as the biggest unionist and nationalist party respectively. The DUP’s Peter Robinson (left) and Sinn Fein’s …

Time for Europe’s ‘pusillanimous politicians’ to do the right thing?

Mick Fealty on April 1, 2011, 11:07 am | Readers 9

Right, stop me if I’ve got this wrong, but it seems to me that Ireland faces two big problems: bank liquidity; and a debt mountain (which has just got way bigger). In order to service the first, the second (whilst already large due to a massive fall in tax receipts) has been made unfeasibly high (how’s that small panic attack going Robert?). The Economist has an obivious solution, but one that is not going to popular with European heads of …