What on earth? Dolphin Air, (ICAO: FDN), the company formed from the assets of Santa Cruz Imperial, has a flight leaving Sharjah at 1600GMT for the United States – specifically Decatur, Illinois. Flight number is FDN 1457. As far as I know the only aircraft left on the FDN register is an old 737-2X5, which…
Read More SurveillanceAccording to Felix “Fishy” Salmon, the volume of lending in the London interbank market has gone from £640bn to £249bn since the credit furt hit in September. Say a 60 per cent cut. What percentage of that book of business does the City take as its turn? How much of that is spent or retained…
Read More Finance, mainstay of our economyThe XV230 Board of Inquiry has travailed, and brought forth many PDFs. And some appalling numpty discposter has printed out the clearly wordprocessed documents, tippexed classified information, and scanned them chunk by chunk as huge uncompressed graphics files, before pdf-ing them into a round dozen fat-arse documents. Still, anything to keep google out, right –…
Read More XV230 Accident Report is OutWhat conclusions should we draw from the failure of the US’s Future Imagery Architecture reconnaissance satellite program? After all, under longstanding and still secret agreements with the US, Britain has not developed any satellite reconnaissance capability because the US promises to provide us with access to the product from theirs. This has been denied at…
Read More Dodgy ChequesWell, this is quite the incoherent rant; words fail me to comment suitably, which is a pity because it would have been better for all concerned had they failed him. My substantive comments are in this thread at Aarowatch. The key point here is that by examining Amis’s bullshit we can form conclusions about his…
Read More Words Fail MeI’m getting a ton of referrals to this post from Dillow’s, which is nice. But I am not particularly keen on the substance; the post is swung on a Peter Oborne piece in the Sextator that goes a little something like this: Disturbing reports have emerged that Gordon Brown is rude to his secretaries —…
Read More Unsourced BS is wrong for both sidesHere’s Simon Jenkins’ latest piece of work. For the Tories it is sex, for Labour it is money. Financial scandal sticks to the latter like political napalm. From formula one to ministerial mortgages, privatisation contracts and cash-for-honours, the sign of a £50 note waving in the wind sends Labour politicians weak at the knees. Their…
Read More Simon Jenkins: Double StandardsI can’t begin to imagine why LibDem polls are up; especially as at the same time more of the population now oppose than support ID cards.
Read More What might explain this astonishing result?Whilst we’re on the Pakistan blogging, immense respect is due to the Pakistan Policy Blog
Read More (Untitled)Whilst we’re on the Pakistan blogging, immense respect is due to the Pakistan Policy Blog. It looks like Nawaz Sharif is coming home – like football, remember that? – apparently because the Saudis insisted that he be released from exile in Jeddah. The PPB makes the very good point that Musharraf has been gradually mutating…
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