Here are some of the sharp-edged puzzles you need to be able to solve to work for Google. Me, I won’t be heading there any time soon. The cleverness often lies not in finding the answers, tough though that certainly is. Rather it’s all about identifying the real question: 7. […]
What happens if you elect prosecutors and judges? Perhaps they start to look at legal issues not according to what is right, but rather according to what outcomes might or might not be ‘popular’. Here is Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz coming down hard on the prosecution case against George Zimmerman […]
Remember the ‘outing’ by the Times of thitherto anonymous blogger Nightjack? It turns out the Times journalist concerned sneaked into Nightjack’s email account by a simple ruse to discover his real identity, and subsequently the Times lied to the courts about the way it found its information. The whole dismal business […]
Here is a gloomy wail by Dahlia Lithwick against the conservative case brought to attack the sprawling ‘Obamacare’ Affordable Care Act, which now has reached the US Supreme Court: But after the aggressive battery of questions from the court’s conservatives this morning, it’s clear that we can only be truly free when the young are […]
I am a proud director of a British SME. I also have helped launch a new and growing LLP: www.adrgambassadors.com So it’s touching to see that the Cabinet Office are Tweeting the fact that they have noticed this vital economic activity, albeit with a clumsy comma: @cabinetofficeuk Francis Maude: SMEs are […]
Long time no see. Up in deepest Leeds, on a combination of family and other business. The Queen’s Hotel does fine cheap deals via LateRooms and has a very solid fish and chips.
As readers know, assorted Crawfs went to a Turkish resort for a short holiday last year. The signs of feverish economic activity were there to be seen on the way from the airport – all sorts of buildings and other structures popping up in a madcap way. Turkey is booming! […]
Who’s not seen Japanese mayhem movie classic RoboGeisha? It’s all about young ladies who get captured by a wicked arms corporation which turns itself into a giant robot and tries to drop an H-bomb down Mt Fuji to make the Japanese people ‘rise up’. Quite why they would rise […]
As the high tide of stupidity steadily moves up from lapping our ankles to dampening our weary groins, the latest example of irredeemable uselessness is … drumroll … Santander bank in nearby XXXXXX. We gave them an easy one. Upgrade our son’s existing Santander account to a Uni-level account with […]
Peggy Noonan (who wrote speches for Ronald Reagan and knows a thing or two about communicating profound ideas in clear words, in part by telling a story) gets today just right: And there were the firemen. They were the heart of it all, the guys who went up the stairs […]
