Click on to the B92 wesbite (leading independent news outlet in Belgrade). It shows a page in Serbian but using the Latin script. My Google Translator button helpfully asks if you would like it translated – "Always translate Croatian". It does offer an option to translate this ‘Croatian’ into Serbian, […]
Over at Business and Politics I ask some questions designed to help people sort out their own thoughts and identify which sort of business behaviour is ‘greedy’: Question FourA family firm builds up over generations now employs 400 people. One worker is a convinced Communist. He starts to agitate for a […]
See (and hear) how a senior Labour politician describes some of the goings-on in the Labour Party in recent years as "wicked and malicious" – and then lies about it on TV. Another triumph for ubiquitous micro-media recording. Wicked. And delicious.
A young woman is unemployed. She has numerous tattoos and face-piercings, which some employers might find unattractive and not the sort of image they wish to present. Question. Should taxpayers who are paying for her unemployment benefits be entitled to expect her to ‘smarten up’ her appearance in a more […]
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: […]
Are North Korea’s leader, Jack Straw, Neil Kinnock and Fidel Castro by some chance related? Of course. Why? Because they are all part of socalist political family hierarchies, featuring a successful father whose fame and power and influence help propel their relatives to new glory. We all know about Kim […]
Here is a fascinating piece over at Spiegel Online describing the ambitions of the EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs (sic) to punish those EU member states which have the temerity to sell products which people want to buy and threby run a nice export surplus: According to draft […]
Daniel Hannan MEP berates the fact that UK contributions to the EU Budget are rising steeply at a time when all Government Departments in the UK are being forced to look for deep cuts. (Note: a terse video clip showing Mr Hannan orating in the European Parliament, a melodrama not improved by an […]
Anne Perkins at the Guardian muses on the fact that new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s private life is no longer so private: Hardly had the world learned the non-secret information that Ed Miliband’s partner, the barrister Justine Thornton, was not also his wife, than a trawl through the birth […]
OK, pretty much all of us agree that it is reasonable for the state to use force against citizens for clear agreed purposes. But does that mean that it is OK for the state to say that all the state’s purposes, whatever they might be, are sufficiently important for force to […]
