A nice article at the Guardian about how people have fallen in love on the train. I was told a true story about a Serbian girl who came to London and ended up commuting to work on the train. She saw a man in a City outfit (smart suit, bowler […]
A nice article at the Guardian about how people have fallen in love on the train. I was told a true story about a Serbian girl who came to London and ended up commuting to work on the train. She saw a man in a City outfit (smart suit, bowler […]
Here is my latest tirade over at Business and Politics about Football and Socialism. (Update: link did not work – apologies. Now fixed) I strongly recommend you check it out. If only for the beyond brilliant photograph of Vaniev Runieski, Stevan Gerardin, Gerd Balev and assorted other heroes of Soviet soccer. […]
Help! Villagers are ordered by the police not to use wire to protect their sheds against burglars! Outrage! What actually happened here? If you read the article it seems that some community police officers warned local residents that "there have been cases where criminals have sued for injuries they have […]
David Cameron made a businesslike case in the Observer today for his Big Society initiative: The first objection is that it is too vague. I reject that. True, it doesn’t follow some grand plan or central design. But that’s because the whole approach of building a bigger, stronger, more active […]
I know, I know. Egypt is a big deal so I need to share my thoughts with you on it. But even though it’s only February 2011 we already have the winner for the Article of the Decade. It’s this one, by Clark Whelton, former speechwriter for New York City […]
Here is a noteworthy look by Farhad Manjoo over at Slate about the deeper significance of AOL and Huffpo joining forces. He has some fascinating things to say about Search Engine Optimization, ie the way Google and the other web search algorithms currently set about their business (and how business […]
It turns out that there is a lively market for advice and training on the subtle arts of Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette. Why? Because these days many organisations (including official international organisations among eg the UN family as well as NGOs and large corporations) send people on postings in far-flung […]
Wrinkled Weasel has been trying to work out where the true loyalties of Sir Gus O’Donnell lie as between former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. And he thinks he has the answer: O’Donnell … no longer wishes to invest emotional energy in protecting a tyrant […]
I have had a kind message from Stevan Hobfoll (former officer in the Israeli defence forces turned expert on Stress) about a novel he has written, The Imperfect Guardian. The book is a Jewish adventure story, based loosely on his grandfather’s early years in Poland and Russia from 1906 (the failed […]
Yet what is impossible in statistics is more than possible in the real-life atmosphere of collectivist US social psychology (sic). Dr. Haidt argued that social psychologists are a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” that hinder research and damage their credibility — and blind them to the hostile climate they’ve […]
