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My Two Farthings


Shilling DreadI listen to the BBC World Service regularly. Generally, it’s a good news source, but on certain European matters, it displays some of its English bias more obviously than when it’s covering matters further afoot.

One of the biggest stories of the last few months that isn’t in any way related to international terrorism or the attacks in Afghanistan is, not surprisingly, the upcoming introduction of Euro bills and coins into the European Union states which ratified the switch to a common currency.

If your only source of news about this matter was the BBC World Service, you’d be absolutely sure that the so-called Euro Zone is utterly doomed Read more »