Greece asked to leave Europe
There’s no way round it. It looks certain that by the end of the day Sarkozy and Merkel will insist that Greece will have to leave Europe. A trillion dollar deal involving the IMF and the European bank will see Greece forcibly detached from the European mainland and towed out of the Mediterranean to be dumped somewhere off the coast of Africa.
How the new Greece may look
Proof of Age
Sinead Old Connor
Here’s a thing I wrote for the Jewish Quarterly. But you may get something out of it even if you didn’t know that the Hebrew for circumcision is “bris”.
It’s over. I write to you now as an old person. Amend the census, tick the age box marked “35 to what-does-it-matter-he’s-past-it-now”, pass on my number to cold-callers with special offers for careful drivers of a certain age. I’m now officially old. (more…)
