Check out this fascinating article about the surging business opportunities in Houston for research into better energy solutions. Link good ideas with creativity and some money and let the Invisible Hand do the rest. Talking of which, look at this wonderful combination of ideas and vision in Australia – using […]
Watch this: A superb sign that at long last Africa is grasping that development aid should just go away.
My latest piece over at Telegraph Blogs looks at how far if at all we can fathom out whether any given EU Budget outcome represents a ‘cut’, and if so a cut of precisely what: The key thing to look for this time is (a) the baseline used for any […]
Decision time (or not) for the EU Budget for the period 2014-2020. I have written extensively on this subject. Here is my classic analysis (in two parts) from 2010 at Conservative Home on the whole process. Read it to get up to speed. More recently I was opining at Telegraph […]
My post about looking at terrorism in terms of both legitimacy of outcomes and legitimacy of process has prompted a friendly reply from Eddy Canfor-Dumas (Head of Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, of which John Alderdice is a Co-Chair): An interesting response to what I think […]
Stop what you’re doing. Now, read this superlative article by Noah Shachtman at Wired about how an old complicated code describing a secret society’s rituals was finally cracked using sassy computer software created to help translate foreign languages: Knight was part of an extremely small group of machine-translation researchers who […]
For no obvious reason the Browser is recycling a strange 2010 interview with Lord Alerdice, who played a significant part in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. The subject is about terrorism, causes of: For me it isn’t a moral term. In other words, I am not using terrorism to […]
Having progeny of my own wending their way through ‘education’ and exams, I am struck by how little it has changed since I was their age, apart from the expected standards of writing/grammar and language learning being clearly lower these days than, say, 30 years ago. Why is this? Various […]
Back in 1998/99 I was one of the first people to point out that Bosnia’s new post-war Constitution as promulgated by the Dayton Accords had a unique feature. The Constitution was unconstitutional! It included obviously discriminatory clauses working against the interests of many citizens who were denied the chance to […]
Here I am after a long gap (spent trying to earn some money) back at Telegraph Blogs, offering my thoughts on the various EU Budget rows now unfolding: The EU has annual budget rows. But the big row comes around every seven years, when the so-called Financial Framework for the […]
