04 Sep 2010

04 September 2010

Columnists

I don’t think Tony Blair has written the version of his memoirs that I want to read

I don’t care about Tony Blair’s book. I don’t care about Tony Blair’s book. I’m sorry, but I just don’t. Unless I really think about it, it’s frankly quite hard to remember who the man was. He’s just become this pious lurking bit-part character in tedious books by other people that I’ve forced myself to

Any other business

Martin Vander Weyer

If only the Chilean miners could be replaced by double-dip doomsters

Martin Vander Weyer’s Any Other Business If life was a Doctor Who series and I was the scriptwriter, I would have the courageous Chilean miners tele-ported instantaneously to the surface — and replaced at the bottom of the collapsed shaft by 33 gloomy economists and market commentators. They would range from New York Times columnist