Hello Again.

Well "hello again" seems as good as anything else after months without a word! I have been very busy but idle as well.

On the football front, we have a had a stuttering, difficult start that you could see coming really, the only really disappointing part of which was the last hour of the game at Brighton. We could have won the derby,  came back well against a good Liverpool side, and picked up a decent point against Swansea. But at Brighton  though we sort of waited for something to happen after about an hour. We should be okay, but boy do we need some goals!

I keep predicting it, but I really think the Euro is nearing it's last few months as a genuine currency. It seems that faith in it, along with some very entrenched vested interests is all that is keeping it from imploding. But the markets and their numbers have their own awesome power, as they have done since the days of the Medicis, and I can't anything but a collapse.

 An orderly retreat is still possible but this is beyond the pale politically for those who could make this happen. This will be a very messy business for us all. The fate of hundreds of millions of people has been left to swing in the wind while political vanities are massaged. It is grotesque and disgusting , and I genuinely wish that the peoples of Europe would , as old Percy Bysshe exhorted people of another time, "Rise like lions after slumber".

There will be blood over this.