This is excellent. Really excellent. It shows how politicians now are baffled by the idea that they are there for us. No, we are here for them, and on their terms.
This is excellent. Really excellent. It shows how politicians now are baffled by the idea that they are there for us. No, we are here for them, and on their terms.
Perusing (as one does and must) the latest DFID White Paper, I was struck by Chapter Seven’s account of how DFID busily plans to hand out taxpayers’ money to ‘civil society organisations’ and other favoured DFID friends not in far-flung poor countries but here in the UK: This requires […]
The UK’s ‘devolution’ arrangements are complicated and either stupidly inconsistent or elegantly tailored to meet varying local requirements, depending how you look at it. Here is the official summary: Devolution of powers Following referendums in Scotland and Wales in 1997, and in both parts of Ireland in 1998, the UK […]
Wouldn’t it be great to have most of the books ever published accessible via the Web? But just as looking for a book in a bookshop is as easy (or not) as the way the bookshop categorises its books and subsequent accuracy in placing books on the shelves under the […]
Three Thousands Versts of Loneliness analyses Putin’s approach to Soviet and Russian history as revealed in his letter to Poland: The ‘Putinite regime’ is commonly portrayed as if it were intent on overseeing Stalin’s rehabilitation, often with the implied aim of entrenching its own, purportedly authoritarian, project. As this weblog […]
I link to this in case you have not seen it yet: It shows what has happened to the US dollar since the Federal Reserve appeared on the scene in 1913 and started busily taking care of the currency’s ‘stability: Inflation, which is the loss of value in your saved […]
That’s part of the secret to successful networks: everyone’s a member, no one is king… In the new post-industrial economy, I argue that there are three opportunities for growth and value: building platforms, building value atop those platforms (as entrepreneurs), and building networks to help these entities optimize their value. […]
Is here chez Trixy. It links to an argument of baffling confusion about the BBC by our fellow Britblog Rounder-upper Cabalamat: Redwood is concerned that the BBC, by virtue of being popular, is unfair competition to private sector news websites. To a certain extent, that’s a valid concern. But the economy […]
It is always fascinating to read original official documents, in this case a selection of papers about the decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted for the Lockerbie bombing. So have a look here. Yet it all seems … incomplete. Where are the letters and emails from/to the […]
As many senior international dignitaries gather in Gdansk today to commemorate the start of WW2, Russian Prime Minister Putin (one of the guests) has written an open letter to Poland to give a clear and (as of now) definitive Russian view on the Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact. Here is the Russian official […]
