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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 4th June 1712 is published at this window. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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The hastily organised bailout of the Spanish based banks (€80-100bn at best estimate) does not appear to have ended market fear about the solvency and debts of the institutions and their counterparties (continental and global business partners). This implied horror also includes the countries and organisations which now apparently have to guarantee the debt of the global financial business.
Spain called Germany's bluff and won easy terms bailout. Merkel being dragged to banking and sovereign mutualisation.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 28th May 1712 are published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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The crisis of global debt continues and it is presently manifesting itself with most vigor inside the financial union of the EU. It reminds of an old pan-european televised entertainment – Jeux Sans Frontières. Britain is, typically, pretending not to play while of course being intimately involved. Ireland, Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal are all more obviously upon the slippery carousel.
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The relationship between politicians and corporate lobbyists has always been controversial and the revelations from the long-running Leveson Inquiry do not show it in a flattering light. The drawing above features Frédéric Michel, the senior lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch’s News International and Adam Smith, special adviser to Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. Smith’s boss and the minister in situ, Jeremy Hunt, held responsibility for dealing with News International’s controversial bid to own all of BSkyB.
Drawing – a collation of thumbnail pencil portraits and some arrows all drawn for my own entertainment (no, really).
Updated – 25th September 2014: An exchange on twitter about recording the activity of lobbyists.
The long-running Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press is now in its third segment – relations between the press and politics. This is an intriguing stage for a number of careers including the Prime Minister’s. His own relations with the disgraced business at News International having long been dragged into the picture.
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The Opinions of Tobias Grubbe for 21st May 1712 is published at this window, or click the picture. His patron Journalisted from the Media Standards Trust where you may read all about them.
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You can read the text of the PM’s speech on the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone here.
Cartoonist David Low drew the original version of ‘Very well alone’ during the summer of 1940 – one of the darkest moments of World War Two – with the UK expecting an invasion from continental Europe.
The cartoon is the classic image of defiance against seemingly irresistible forces. At the time, it made a powerful pair with Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speech about fighting the invaders on the beaches.
This modern parody cartoon applies ‘defiance’ to David Cameron and his speech on the Eurozone crisis – just like Winston’s words, the PM’s not as alone as he implies he is. Mr Cameron always has the deputy PM.
Cross-posted at MSN NewsBite blog.
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Home Secretary Theresa May found herself lost in the beard of preacher Abu Qatada during the end of a decade-long extradition battle. This image was a speedy sketchbook response to a breaking news event.
