Veiled threat?

14th July 2010

Following a Belgian ban on the burkha the French parliament has adopted a formal motion that the burkha is "an affront to the nation's values".

President Nicolas Sarkozy supports the ban and his cabinet is considering a draft bill featuring a one-year prison sentence and fines up to £14,000 on husbands who force their wives to wear a burkha.

The new law would create an offence of "incitement to cover the face for reasons of gender".

Poor Michael Jackson must be spinning in his grave.

Go tell the Greeks

After some fancy footwork on it's figures, Greece has finally come to the conclusion that it's time to 'fess up and hold out it's trotter to the other members of the Eurozone club.

It won't be disappointed, Germany and France would be way, way too embarrassed to allow a 'Eurozoner' economy to fail, even if it deserves to.

Could this prove to be their Achillies heel?