Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh. The BBC is cutting some language services on the World Service: The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be axed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year Pa kako je to uopste moguce, bre? Sramota! One of the […]
Over at TopSpurs an interesting look at the performance of successive Tottenham managers over 35 years. The impact of Harry Redknapp is startling. He seems to give the team energy and coherence, but above all good humoured collective optimism. A wider lesson for all managers in 2011? All of which […]
Do read this fine piece by Tyler Cowen on different aspects of inequality. It’s stuffed with interesting ideas and thought-provoking arguments: First, the inequality of personal well-being is sharply down over the past hundred years and perhaps over the past twenty years as well. Bill Gates is much, much richer […]
Developing the theme of correct punctuation, reader jdmyeepa steers us to this superb essay about the Philosophy of Punctuation by Paul Robinson, who used to keep goal for Tottenham (and alas England) but then became a prominent American intellectual. Or maybe it’s two separate P Robinsons. Whatever. Anyway, this deft […]
A night of sheer misery. First, bitter disappointment for Tottenham who beat the European champions by a mere 3-1. Check out this footytube video and its commentary in French, where Gareth Bale is eloquently described as a TGV train as time after time he flies past one of the best […]
You know that ‘wagon-wheel effect’ in Western movies when it looks as if the wheels are going backwards? Explained here: Imagine that the true rotation of a four-spoke wheel is clockwise. The first instance of visibility of the wheel may occur when one spoke is at 12 o’clock. If by […]
Having wasted an evening watching that truly lamentable apology for a football match at Wembley, I have been moved to Tweet my rage in my best available Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin: Glupost. Sramota. Engleska je bila besmislena, slaba, kompromitovana. Crnogorci su igrali pomalo grubo ali i ponekad dobro. Ih cestitam. Take that, Capello. Now […]
I have been writing a piece for Business and Politics on Greed. It has involved intensive research on the Internet. I thought I would share with my loyal readers my core findings. Thus: Let’s run some Google searches and look at the Top 10 Greedy Grabbers: Greedy financiers: […]
I am fed up. No, I really am. How many more times do I need patiently to explain to this country that Football Fascism is unacceptable. What is Tim Montgomorie doing supporting the idea that the state should loot specific items of private property so that local MPs can show […]
The Crawfs are moving house soon. A valuer came round today to look at out furniture, too much of it for the new place. Over many years we have spent, say, £20,000 on these pieces of different shapes and sizes. How to get anything back now? If they go to auction […]
