We’re now in year three of the worst financial crisis since the great depression, and it’s a little difficult to say exactly where we are. Equity markets have just had their strongest […]
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The Silly Season
It was, I admit, a bit of a surprise to discover that my new country has anarchists around. Not the Kropotkin bomb-makers, of course–the bomb-makers we do have don’t seem motivated by […]
Passages
The Independent had a fine article this past Saturday on an imminent seminal event. It’s not often that one is actually able to predict these events, and this one has a number […]
That special something
So now there’s talk among the higher reaches of the Labour government to put together some sort of commission, or study group, to look into whether the Special Relationship has been damaged […]
Darwin Day
There are quite a few celebrations this year of one form or another—the 200th anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine (although that’s not such a hot issue in Britain, outside of […]
Cushing 1, Books 0
There’s been quite a lot of discussion the past several years on what we might refer to as The Future of the Book. Unsurprisingly, virtually all of this relates to the impact […]
A New World
Off to the Globe Theatre last evening for the new play on Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths, A New World. I have to say it was a bit of a disappointment. Part […]
On Snark
I’m trying to decide if I want to read the new book by David Denby called Snark, which is just being published here in Britain. It’s apparently a dignified commentary on what’s […]
Local Hero
From time to time I wander over to Front Porch Republic, or What I Saw in America, or some other crunchy-con site, to see how they’re getting on. I can’t really tell […]
I pity the poor expatriate, dum dumm, dum dumm, dum dumm
Every time I think that Bloomberg has the potential to become in interesting news service, financial or otherwise, they decide to come up with something else entirely. Like today’s preposterous article about American […]
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