OK, it’s been done a million times before, but it never fails to amuse if done well. And this one on Ken Livingstone and his taxes is a fine satirical effort. Wait for the final magnificent line:
OK, it’s been done a million times before, but it never fails to amuse if done well. And this one on Ken Livingstone and his taxes is a fine satirical effort. Wait for the final magnificent line:
Here are some of the sharp-edged puzzles you need to be able to solve to work for Google. Me, I won’t be heading there any time soon. The cleverness often lies not in finding the answers, tough though that certainly is. Rather it’s all about identifying the real question: 7. […]
Remember the ‘outing’ by the Times of thitherto anonymous blogger Nightjack? It turns out the Times journalist concerned sneaked into Nightjack’s email account by a simple ruse to discover his real identity, and subsequently the Times lied to the courts about the way it found its information. The whole dismal business […]
What happens if you elect prosecutors and judges? Perhaps they start to look at legal issues not according to what is right, but rather according to what outcomes might or might not be ‘popular’. Here is Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz coming down hard on the prosecution case against George Zimmerman […]
This has appeared: it is indeed odd how ‘readable’ it is. Would something similar work in eg Polish? I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr […]
Remember flying the Gay Rights Flag in Poland? Read this one if you haven’t done so previously – it’s a belter. Now a vibrant new edgy FCO public diplomacy issue emerges: when is it OK for a senior British diplomat to use the s*** word during a radio phone-in programme […]
Diligent readers know how I hate the evil Precautionary Principle: My professional concern about PP is that far from promoting policy common sense it can diminish it. Take the refurbishment of the British Ambassador’s residence in Belgrade back in 2001. The building had been neglected during the long Milosevic years. […]
Here is a nifty piece I wrote about ethicability and Moral DNA back in 2010: Does ethicability methodology do justice to the existential moral value of trading, itself an expression of intrinsic human integrity. Take, for example, Love. Many people these days think that compassion/love require the successful to give […]
Remember this 2009 piece about ‘sustainability’ and Aeron chairs? One way to go is to make products which have the opposite of built-in obsolescence – products which are engineered not only to work superbly but also to last a long time, and so save resources that way. But they will […]
In case you have not yet had enough about FCO foreign language policy, here’s my first full piece for the Daily Telegraph (ie newspaper + website) on the subject, distinguished on many levels but above all for craftily slipping some words of Serbian into the piece to show how clever […]
