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A Rogue Tweet Spoils George Oborne’s Party

You have to feel some sympathy for UK finance minister George Osborne. Not only is he dealing with a stubbornly weak economy, but his top-secret annual budget presentation to Parliament was spoiled by an errant tweet. The incident was widely covered and featured plenty of hand-wringing and finger-pointing. But it’s amazing this sort of blunder […]

Time to Ready the Longbows, Boris?

Crisis , Financial Services , Media

The cross-channel brawl that has broken out between London mayor Boris Johnson and a French central bank official has everything a British tabloid editor loves: colorful protagonists, money, national pride and a favorite adversary – the French. While it’s tempting to read the story as a blunder by the French, it’s a calculated move, and […]