Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph has been writing some of the most colorful, alarming, and (as far as I can tell) prescient commentary on the latest developments in the two-year old, credit market saga better known as the European sovereign debt crisis.
Last week’s Better a horrible end for Euroland, or endless horror? offered the imagery shown to the right when it appeared at his blog where, presumably, there are less strict rules on decorum than in the newspaper.
That’s Ambrose on the left.
Friday’s blog entry Europe’s blithering idiots and their flim-flam treaty attracted nearly 2,000 comments, so, clearly, as far as generating discussion, he’s doing a very good job and an opening line such as “What remarkable petulance and stupidity” does little to make readers think that they’ll be disappointed upon reading further.
Three entries yesterday for the print edition of the paper are more reserved, but not much:
- Merkel’s Teutonic summit enshrines Hooverism in EU treaty law
- Bundesbank rejects Europe’s IMF funding ruse
- EU treaty: Business leaders play down veto fears
Links to all his work appears at this page at the Telegraph and it provides a good diversion from the coverage provided by the mainstream media that rarely includes any pictures from Lord of the Rings, though I’m guessing that Balrog (as Germany) would be a better metaphor for what’s been going in Europe lately.
[BTW - if the image above is not from Lord of the Rings (which I wasn't able to verify), try not to let that distract from the significance (and light humor) of the Balrog comment.]









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