The pound in your pocket hasn't devalued
When Harold Wilson said something like that it was obviously a lie. I've commented a few times on the somewhat bizarre return of the 'devaluationists' in economic commentary, led by Ambrose Evans Pritchard, who I seems to believe that every country in the world can, and should, devalue at the same time.
But anyway, the point of this piece was I just bought four bottles of
Champagne from the local off-licence for £40. So perhaps Wilson was right after all as its pretty good stuff.
update: Ooh, my head. Bloody Alistair Darling.
Labels: Churchill
Churchill and Australia
It looks an interesting
book and one to buy if they ever translate it and turn it the right-way up for us here in England. The Guardian
article* is perhaps more harsh on Churchill than the book, which Paul Keating gives rather a good speech about
here.
* There are some good comments. One noting that if the Australians didn't like him, there were people in other Empire countries that thought even less. But my favourite is 'Did FDR go to Hiroshima?'. That's either clever or stupid, but I can't tell which.
Labels: Churchill
Winston Churchill didn't exist?
So say a
fifth of British teenagers. Neville Chamberlain steered the country through the war, presumably. Actually a fifth isn't that many, I suppose. I remember I was very confused about which party Churchill was a member of, but I think that's excusable given so was he half the time.
Labels: Churchill, kids
