Arrivederci, democrazia. Italy's new Cabinet does not include a single elected politician.
posted by Natalie at 1:04 PM
Loss of nerve: the Sheriff's judgement on the death of Alison Hume"A paramedic was also told to remove his harness and halt an attempt to reach Mrs Hume because he was not familiar with fire service equipment"
That is from a report in the
Herald on the Fatal Accident Enquiry carried out by Sheriff Desmond Leslie on the slow death of Alison Hume while the Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service read up about "the parameters of their engagement" and concluded that these did not include her rescue. She was eventually pulled out by a police mountain rescue team, but by that time hypothermia had taken hold. She died of a heart attack in hospital.
posted by Natalie at 12:34 PM
What will happen to the Euro? I asked Samizdata readers. One of them, "bobby b", said,
"What will happen to the Euro?"
There's only one left?
God. That really WAS a liquidity crisis.
posted by Natalie at 5:04 PM
If only. I was enraged by George Monbiot saying, "If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire." From the post:
If in most of Africa in the last half-century the probable, or, Dear God, the permitted, result of the hard work and enterprise of women - or men - had been a modest increase in wealth, and not, as it mostly was, the expropriation of whatever you had gained and a chance to be murdered as a hoarder or class enemy by whatever Derg or other bunch of socialist thugs was calling itself the government that week, why, then Africa might have thrown off poverty the way Taiwan and South Korea did.
posted by Natalie at 5:00 PM
