Author: Frank Schnittger

Mathieu Bastareaud scoring one of his two tries against Scotland. I know ET isn’t a hotbed of sporting fanatics and Rugby isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I feel the urge to write my annual diary on rugby as...

Or hot air from slow burners?  After 12 years of destroying the infrastructure for the production and distribution of energy in the UK in the name of market liberalisation, Labour has a deathbed conversion and finally sees...

Now also available in Orange and on The European Tribune. The received wisdom in mainstream US political discourse appears to be that Martha Coakley lost the Massachusetts special Senate election (to replace Ted Kennedy) because...

Despite his admittedly dismal record of economic forecasting, the Times’ Anatole Kaletsky is again engaging in a bit of doom porn over the fate of the Euro in 2010:Disappointment ahead for UK — and big test for...

Brian Lenihan has only been a cabinet Minister for two and a half years: firstly as Minister for Justice, and latterly as Minister for Finance in Brian Cowen’s first – and likely only – Government.  As...