You know you’re getting old when your friends’ children suddenly pop up doing good stuff. On their own. Take Louisa Allen, debuting on iTunes with her song Sorry. Buy the album. What a sponge! And Kate Maltby, over at Yale as a wannabe conservative feminist cultural critic, off to a flying […]
Over at Business and Politics: Driving back home yesterday I almost crashed the car, so overwhelmed I was by a blast of noxious fumes verily of Icelandic proportions erupting from the radio. A senior TUC person was intoning that it would be wrong for the new government to make deep […]
Craig Murray came out for the Lib Dems and so finds himself in the novel position of supporting a Conservative-led coalition: I can say that I can broadly support this government and am convinced that it will be an improvement on the bunch of authoritarian war criminals who have been […]
… But far and away the most important thing here is just that, if these concerns about sovereign debt were to spread to a wider range of countries – and I hope the measures taken at the weekend and the measures that will now be taken will stop that and […]
Today I made my debut on the Agenda programme recorded for Press TV, an international media outlet paid for by Iran Broadcasting. The subject was British Foreign Policy after the UK elections. The programme should go out this weekend, or maybe the weekend after. Islamic journalist Yvonne Ridley was the host. [Update: […]
Read this lucid big picture piece by Robert Samuelson about the global economy: Despite some disagreements, economic scholars subscribe to a broad consensus about what went wrong in the 1930s. Government central banks, like the Fed, were too passive. They didn’t halt bank panics. Intervention at decisive moments (perhaps the […]
Samp expected to sell for £5m This is the world’s most expensive stamp with a price tag of up to £5 million. As of 08.22 this morning.
What does the new UK government plan to do eg with our old enemy the Working Time Directive? According to the BBC: As part of the EU truce, the Conservatives will drop their plan to seek an opt-out from some social legislation, especially the working time directive, but will seek […]
I have mentioned before the energetic and profound e-mailed writings of John Mauldin. Look at this from a piece he recently ran by Michael E Lewitt – a wonderful definition of capital and by implication capitalism: Capital is not a thing or a category; capital is a living, breathing phenomenon. Capital […]
I signed up for Twitter a few minutes ago wondering if I would get any followers. 55 have signed up already. Blimey. This thing is FAST. How do you stop it taking over your life? Or maybe it just does? Next stop. To work out how to get my blog […]
