Incident on the A598
This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy […]
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The Republican opponents of Barack Obama
The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as
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States or citizens – the flag reveals all
I wrote on this blog recently of the United Nations as having the weakness that it represents only states and not peoples. Here is an example of the consequences of
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Three threats to the euro still remain
The European Council meeting a week ago was convened with the aim of saving the euro. Agreement was reached at the meeting about a way forward for the EU, even
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What has David Cameron achieved at the summit?
The fallout from last night’s European Council summit in Brussels is still falling out, but I think it is possible now to identify the main lines of what was and
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Is the sea level rising?
The Spectator last week questioned the reports that sea levels around the world are rising. (Read the article, by Nils-Axel Mörner, here.) Higher sea levels are generally expected to be
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What patterns of share ownership tell us
An interesting statistic reported by Professor Prem Sikka in the Guardian today, regarding the ownership of British companies. The proportion of the shares in UK-listed companies owned by foreign investors
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Shot by both sides
It is always nice when a hunch gets confirmed by data, so thank you to Simon Hix of the LSE for a presentation earlier this week on coalitions within the
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Can Europe avoid economic decline?
The public sector strikers outside English schools, hospitals and government offices today are protesting not against government pension policies but against something much bigger. There are profound economic problems that
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Strike!
Trade union leader Dave Prentis was on the radio this morning, while up to 2 million public sector workers are on strike protesting at cuts to their pensions, criticising the