Update from Athens
Rainy Day has focussed its energy on Greece during the past two days and it looks as if the effort has been worthwhile. Word has reached us that in a truly byzantine series of manoeuvres over the last 48 hours (quelle coincidence?) , Kostas Simitis, the Greek Prime Minister and leader of PASOK, the ruling socialist party, in effect forced its secretary-general, Kostas Laliotis, to resign, revamped the entire party politburo and reshuffled his government, bringing in two more moderate and defintely more "pro-western" figures. Laliotis in his resignation speech directly implied that his removal was effectively the work of the American Ambassador, who disliked his stance on the Iraq war...
Stavros Petrolekas, our correspondent in Athens, says that the man who has been at the very heart and soul of PASOK, next to Andreas Papandreou, since its inception some 25 years ago, actually believes such ridiculous nonsense.
Regimes that stoke the populist fires of anti-Westernism should note that Rainy Day has eyes and ears all over. Goliaths, regardless of how intimidating they appear to be, should not consider themselves secure from our cybershot.
And so to bed.
