As world financial markets reel, which article tops the list of Indy website Most Read pieces? Not surprisingly the one with this headline: Ex-Mr Gay UK ‘cooked and ate sex partner’ As a metaphor for dogger-eats-dogger rampant capitalism, that story’s hard to beat?
True enough. But maybe we might have expected rather more of the Economist? Is the problem that standards are slipping even at this level of supposedly good journalism? Or that people claiming to be serious are no longer aware of what standards actually are?
Is one answer to gloabal energy problems for us humans to do what electric eels do to generate electricty? But better?
Articles assessing the dire state of public health in Russia keep appearing. Here is another. Some numbers: … remember tuberculosis? In the United States, with a population of 303 million, 650 people died of the disease in 2007. In Russia, which has a total of 142 million people, an astonishing […]
The Weathermen issue (and Barack Obama’s links to Bill Ayers) have made it to the front page of the BBC website: Sarah Palin has accused presidential candidate Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists – referring to his acquaintance with a former member of the Weather Underground. So who were […]
The folk at EU Referendum are churning out searching piece after piece on the deep and complicated EU rules which (they say) look to be making the financial crisis graver than it might be. This post argues that the ranks of UK journalistic experts are failing to see the issues as a […]
I have added a link to SpyBlog on my site’s list of Current Favourites, as it has all sorts of informative pieces for those interested in some of the grainier details of government business and e-security/surveillance generally. Try this piece on an attempt (unsuccessful!) to extract from the FCO the […]
Take a look at the Heritage/WSJ 2008 Economic Freedom rankings. Bosnia and Herzegovina languishes in a dismal 121st place overall, below even Tajikistan. If you compare Bosnia with all other ‘European’ countries its individual ratings under the key different indictaors measures are not too bad – until it comes to Property […]
While doing some Googling on the subject of Diplomatic Leaks for a forthcoming article, I found this: Have you ever wanted to spy on a foreign government? The DEranged Security website published the addresses and passwords of 100 email accounts from embassies and governments around the world. Those nations involved […]
The Telegraph website continues to froth up the story of the leaked letter from Sir Nigel Sheinwald assessing Barack Obama. As best it can, scouring some meagre titbits from the deeper reaches of the Internet: On the conservative Free Republic website, comments included "It suggests to me that Obama will […]
