dune

Calm down. You'll only have a funny turn if you carry on like this.

So basically the "warzone" is an insurgency centred in a region far away from the tourist hot spots. Thanks for clearing that up.

Can we now talk about the warzone that Turkey has become, but only you know about?

Oh no I don't. I believe they were racist, but that doesn't mean the murder was motivated by race. They were a gang of youths, and gangs of youths kill people on a regular basis in London.

Whatever, i'm bored with this story now, but I expect it'll be on the news every day for the next month, whilst other murders are given hardly any coverage.

They deserve to go down for murder, but I don't believe it was a racist murder.

I must have missed the warzone in the Turkish resort areas, or are you talking about the skirmishes in Kurdish areas hundreds of miles away?

Best not mention the fans dressed in red gimp suits..

So naive. So disregarding of history. So wrong.

Stop believing the rubbish you read about this. A collapse will be the saviour for the likes of Italy and Spain as they will then get a weak currency that attracts investment. There's plenty of gold sloshing around waiting to be spent - not least from those who profited hugely from government bailouts. This capital didn't just evaporate - investors are itching to invest! That said once the Euro does fail - and it will, it won't be good for Germany as they'll have a strong currency - shame! As for the UK we will have already finalised contingency plans to shield us as much as possible from continentals clamouring to transfer their money to our shores, and although the pound will strengthen this will mitigate much of the risk. On the brightside we'll all get cheaper foreign hols!

China is Imperialist, and they are already colonial powers much like we were under the guises of the East india Company and the South Africa company. Wakey wakey, all this is happening right in front of your eyes if you opened them and looked.

The way of the world is thus: You are either a master or a slave. Dune, 3/1/12.

Well it isn't really, so i'll concede that point. China today is Imperialist - the best system there is. They have basically copied the age old model and the model that served us so well during our glorious days of Empire. What they do is empower tin pot leaders, make the said tin pot leaders reliant on them to retain power (and because of the crimes said leaders commit retain their very skins), and they exploit this hold they have over them. Basically what China does in Africa is exactly what we did both there and in India in the beginning. The next natural step for China is full on colonialism and there will be nothing that we or anyone else can do about it. People talk about the world being a different place now and all that, but to think that is b/llocks. Human nature and the ways of mandkind are a constant and historical precedents repeat themselves over and over again. Just like when brown talked of curing boom and bust, those who think we now live in fluffy liberal world where everyone hugs trees are burying their heads in the sand.

That's their poor governance. That's their problem. Rhodesia is a perfect example of how Africa can feed itself. Under rule of the great Ian Smith it was the bread basket of Africa, under Mugabe the people starve. Ian Smith ran a capitalist nation, Mugabe runs a dictatorship initially propped up by the USSR and now propped up by communist China.

I'm all for more accountability. If a bank gets into trouble it should sort it's own mess out and if it can't it should be left to collapse. Never again should they have the safety net of tax payers. For this reason I do agree that high street banking should be separate from gambling den banking.

For once you say something sensible.

You disapoint me. Where is the golfing story to go alongside this suggestion?

All I'd say is don't book a holiday to the Eurozone this year... If you are planning a short haul holiday places like Turkey and Egypt look the best bet, especially Turkey where you can get a cracking exchange rate compared to where it was a year ago.

Open your f/cking eyes. It's not capitalism that has created the mess, IT IS SOCIALISM. The huge sovereign debt mountains is because governments (particularly in he socialist southern European states) decided to raise living stndards for people who didn't deserve to have their standards raised. You have to earn rises in living standards', not expect them as a basic human right.

And notice how it was the "loons" (as wade would put it) that said this from the start.

Buying cheap products produced by slave labour (which is essentially what buying from far east sweat shops is) is a problem. I try not to, not because of some high brow moral conviction, but because mass produced asian products are crap. You're basically throwing money down the drain. You don't have much choice when it comes to electrical items, but when it comes to furniture and other items around the house I very rarely buy new anymore. What's the logic of paying hundreds for a chip board flat pack, or some tacky ornament, when you can buy antique/second hand quality for the same price or less that will hold/appreciate in value?

It's amazing how often those the left call "loons" are proved right...

RIP. Far too young to die.

Despite rises in stock markets in recent days the game is up. It's ludicrous how the DAX and the CAC have soared on the news that manufacturing decline has slowed when the simple truth is that new orders are falling at a far faster rate than manufacturers have been cutting output, meaning firms have been reliant on orders placed earlier in the year to sustain current production levels, so even these bad figures aren't bad enough to give a true picture. The Euro will collapse and the sooner the better because it has to collapse if we are to get out of this mess. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8988297/European-markets-climb-despite-further-fall-in-manufacturing.html

I'm ahead of my time. I detest Socialism/Communism because it is a failed philosophy. The Conservative party is the party of the working classes because it is the party of small government and empowering people. Instead of high taxation and distribution I believe in low taxation and letting people spend their own money. This encourages entrepreneurs and creates jobs.