Dear Richard Seymour – Heinz Kiosk Was A Joke
Or perhaps a satire, but even so Heinz Kiosk was more of a warning of what not to say than what to utter. Pity...
Storm Dennis – 325 Year Old Ship Aiding The RNLI
Shades of the Flying Dutchman here. Storm Dennis is battering Britain, a man washed overboard and:
Sixty-gun frigate HMS Winchester is believed to have responded...
An Emergency Is Exactly When You Do Want Surge Pricing
OK, so this is Salon so we don't expect much economic knowledge here. Uber and Lyft had surge pricing when demand rose because of...
Snippa And Willy
There's an art to columnising. There are only so many interesting subjects that can be written about which is why so many opinion pieces...
Brett Stephens might have a point you know
As the novelist Gary Shteyngart wrote on Twitter: “Woke up to a New York Times op-ed about one group being intellectually superior to others...
Too Bonkers For The Online Edition
From The Times:
"Commuters are spending an average of more than 10% of their take home pay on train fares"
This conclusion reached by looking at...
Quite Disgusting From Sonia Sodha
Of course, someone, some system, must be to blame for the grooming gangs up in the North of England. How all those young girls...
The Guardian Says We’re Doing Terribly – Except For The Times We’ve Done Worse
This might not be the most terrifying economic story ever if we're to be accurate about it:
The British economy is on track for the...
Christmas Quiz – Spot The Connection
A real puzzler to work on over the turkey burps. From Google News:
What could possible be the connection between the top and last story?...
An Historian Should Know This
But then this isn't history, this is propaganda:
We have had housing crises before and through much of the last century state-directed action was taken...