This is another adroit piece of analysis on the Eurozone’s misery, written by Michael Pettis of the Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management – what a change of civilisations we see as such analysis is written from China – in language most of us can think we understand. It focuses on […]
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, the Human Mind comes up with something utterly new and outlandish. Such as this awesome site which grabs sentences found somewhere or other on Twitter and runs them together with other sentences to produce short poems in rhyming iambic pentameters: With algorithms subtle […]
Back from baking amazing Dubai. Impressions to be recorded separately. Check out this superb piece of work from Frances Coppola, ‘one-time professional banker’, on the difference between between being ‘illiquid’ and being ‘insolvent’. The key point to grasp is that you are 100% bust if you can not pay your […]
If you are not on Twitter, stop what you’re doing and sign up. Then find me at @CharlesCrawford and click ‘Follow’. Then run #popleveson through the Search facility and find gazillions of super barresterial jokes linking the Leveson Inquiry (British journalist ethics zzzzzz) and pop songs. All in 140 characters: Leigh-Anne […]
Early tomorrow I head to Dubai, my first-ever visit there to give some workshops on Chairing, Negotiation and Cross-cultural Communication. Here’s a press release about it put out by the organisers, Pinnacle PR. If anyone out there wishes to get in touch with me while I am in Dubai next […]
I have linked here to many pieces first spotted for me by The Browser, a well designed site which does nothing but identify interesting bits of work and link to them. Like the simple and superb Arts & Letters Daily but in a posher outfit. Why, in its early halcyon days it […]
Read this fascinating article about anti-semitism in Germany down the decades, and what factors have influenced it. A banquet of food for thought. But this point about the way Nazis were dealt with after WW2 by the Brits and Americans respectively caught my eye: If Germans could be influenced strongly […]
This a superb example of one form of Addictive Stupidity – people who have lulled themselves to sleep on the ambrosia of past glory, demanding that Reality apply to anyone but themselves, fine and upstanding New York Times journalists as they most certainly are. You’ll need a heart of stone not to […]
UPDATE George Monbiot has written to me to point out a mistake in the piece below: I note that in your blog post you say “This is not quite the same as listing his wealth – who knows how many ISAs and the rest he has tucked away, or the […]
Wikipedia helps us in working out how fast Lord Reith is rotating in his grave as the BBC sinks lower and lower: Rotational speed can measure, for example, how fast a motor is running. Rotational speed and angular speed are sometimes used as synonyms, but typically they are measured with […]
