Greetings, world. Just to let you know that I am still alive, more or less, albeit deep in boxes and packing paper. What’s strange about moving house is that the pleasure one gets from buying things to reward oneself for working is notably less than the pleasure one gets from […]
There comes a time in any house-packing process when the computer is one the last things standing unpacked and has to meet its Fate. That moment has come. I leave you with this wonderful piece by Victor Hanson Davis, about the Left’s raging against reality in Greece, California and many […]
Feeling a bit … heavy after all that Christmas stuffing? A question: do we get fatter because we ‘overeat’? Is the statement "I took in too many calories and so I got fatter" logically meaningful? Or is it just vacuous logic, a statement which is true but says nothing of […]
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 […]
The Browser asks Dr Michael Nicholson to share five books about Solzhenitsyn. Interesting, but then there’s this clanger: … it’s a good example of the confusion that has been sewn by the sequence of publication of Solzhenitsyn’s work in the West. Sorry to bother you. Back to the packing boxes.
I previously have linked to the astounding Iowahawk, whose devasting demolitions of the pompous and fat-headed are a modern wonder of civilisation. But at last he wildly misses the mark, in his new piece lauding the virtues of his new red jump-suit: Something about being clad in a jumpsuit gives a man renewed […]
Sorry, I was distracted from packing to spot this strange headline on the BBC web-page: US ‘revokes Venezuela envoy visa’ Why have they put most of that in inverted commas, as if it’s not true or somehow qualified or in doubt? The BBC’s own article on the subject reports a State […]
Things have been quiet here at this for a few days over Christmas, and are going to be quiet here for a few days more as we enter the final throes of moving house. The current house looks like a total wreck as we try to sort things out and […]
Nasty public mood growing in Russia? Who cares? It’s the FT’s strange editing which catches the eye: Russian ultra-nationalism, however, is a phenomenon created not without the Kremlin’s help, and observers argue that Mr Putin’s Kremlin has used nationalism as a force for political consolidation during his decade in power. […]
Inspired by the fine Five Books series partnered by the Browser, I have turned my own hand over at Business & Politics to analysing five classic children’s books which teach vital messages of economics. Such as Billy Bunter: It all ends badly for Bunter, of course, with a drastic caning […]
