Posts Tagged ‘ blogging ’

Das ist verboten

Today the cheery news on the BBC that shisha smoking, which is popular with a fair and growing number of people my age (mostly posh ones who like to pretend they aren’t – and make a hash of it), is anything up to 450 times as bad for your health as having a cigarette, as [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #14

The indices have all been happily continuing their rise from last week, buoyed by more positive 2nd-quarter results from across the markets – most notably, excellent results from eBay and AT&T pushed the Dow Jones above 9000 for the first time since January, while the DAX rose above 5200 for the first time in about [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #13

RIGHT. Finally, a Statwatch with some sense of continuity. The most significant event on the markets this week was the very impressive 2nd-quarter result from Goldman Sachs, which drove up confidence in the banking sector overall, and saw the major indices post 3-figure rises. Confidence in the long-term recovery prospects for the EU and USA [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #12

I’ve decided to change the contents of the weekly Statwatch yet again – quite apart from sourcing the data from completely different online locations, specifically the Financial Times rather than BBC or Bloomberg for ease and consistency. New additions are: commodities (heating oil, natural gas, ethanol, platinum, palladium), a market interest rates summary (Sterling Overnight [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #11

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. I’ve decided to remove the signatures on the anti-Gordon Brown petition, as that particular statistic has petered out somewhat – it’s had its moment, and it isn’t really going anywhere anymore. I’ve also opted to add the £/$ and $/€ [ READ MORE ]

Limited blogging

  • June 29th, 2009
  • Posted in General

I must apologise in advance for what will probably be something of a drop in blogging activity over the coming 9 weeks – unfortunately it looks as though I will not be able to keep up the now-habitual one or two blogposts on average per day. During the next two months of my summer holiday, [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #10

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8543 (↑0.0071 from last week and ↓0.0516 from observation #1) Signatures: 68314 (↑205 from last week and ↑60875 from observation #1) [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #9

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8472 (↓0.0066 from last week) Signatures: 68109 (↑405 from last week) Brent crude oil: $69.40 (↓$1.36 from last week) Gold: $935.25 [ READ MORE ]

How to fool the police

Samizdata have a fantastic post up of late regarding the recently-unmasked police blogger NightJack (whose blog, which attracted admiration from commentators as elite as Danny Finkelstein, now no longer exists, thanks to the perversion of English privacy law by Mr Justice Eady), which features an extract from one of his best pieces, specifically about how [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #8

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8538 (↓0.0254 from last week) Signatures: 67704 (↑1475 from last week) Brent crude oil: $70.76 (↑$2.39 from last week) Gold: $937.25 [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #7

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8792 (↑0.0063 from last week) Signatures: 66229 (↑2377 from last week) Brent crude oil: $68.37 (↑$2.63 from last week) Gold: $962.00 [ READ MORE ]

Imminent vote of no confidence?

In Iain Dale’s paean to Hazel Blears (who is known in right-wing blogger circles as ‘The Chipmunk’), there was an interesting rumouroid (like a factoid, but more exciting) that there is a letter of no confidence going round Labour MPs, of whom 40 have already signed it – once that number reaches 72, apparently “events [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #6

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8729 (↓0.0052 from last week) Signatures: 63852 (↑1023 from last week) Brent crude oil: $65.74 (↑$5.11 from last week) Gold: $975.50 [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #5

Here’s the £/€ exchange rate, the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown, the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. £/€ XR: 0.8781 (↓0.0124 from last week) Signatures: 62829 (↑3480 from last week) Brent crude oil: $60.63 (↑$4.56 from last week) Gold: $959.75 [ READ MORE ]

Statwatch #4

Here are the same two as last week: the £/€ exchange rate and the number of signatures on the 10 Downing Street petition to get rid of Gordon Brown. I’ve decided to add the Brent Crude Oil Future $/barrel and Forex Gold Index $/oz. For banter. £/€ XR: 0.8905 (↓0.0002 from last week) Signatures: 59349 [ READ MORE ]

Erith & Thamesmead

Selection cancelled due to ‘irregularities’. As Labourhome resignedly puts it, another victory for the bloggers against the government. Bye-bye Georgia Gould. Tally: 2-0. Hattip: BBC for the picture of Georgia Gould, nepotistically-imposed candidate (far left above)[ READ MORE ]

Change we need?

The recent turmoil involving Damian McBride, Derek Draper and Guido Fawkes is obviously the big story of the moment, and I was rather expecting matters to quieten down before I came up with a value-judging assessment of the whole affair. As it seems, however, the revelation by Guido, prefaced by this cryptic (and possibly in [ READ MORE ]

Day 85 (19.ix.08)

Well my friends, here we are – tomorrow I get to catch a mid-afternoon flight from Pearson International airport that arrives back in England at some point in the late hours of Saturday according to EST, but in the early hours of Sunday by GMT. Assuming the in-flight entertainment, for whose quality I have little [ READ MORE ]

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