Today’s Terrible Idea – University Price Setting By Regulatory Diversity Targets
From the Annals of Truly Terrible Ideas comes this suggestion from the universities regulator. Apparently the idea is that they will determine market prices...
Don’t Laugh – Pastor Eaten By Crocodile During Lake Baptism
This is one of those stories that we're never really sure to believe or not. A bit like Herodotus and innumerable other historians and...
A Nicely Delusional View Of Brexit
William Keegan gives us what must be one of the odder arguments against Brexit out there:
George Soros is right: Europe faces an existential crisis,...
Trending News To Vanish From Facebook – That’s More Than One Business Model Up...
An interesting little - for aficionados of such stuff - story illustrating the similarity between a market economy and evolution itself. The point being...
Science Says Personality Types And Music Preferences Are Linked
Another of those reports from the wilder shores of science to remind us that the expansion of the universities was perhaps a waste of...
Good Question In The Guardian – What About Those 100 Million Deaths?
An entirely reasonable and sensible question from Martin Kettle in The Guardian:
A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million?
Martin Kettle
Quite...
If Only People Understood What A Sunk Cost Is
Something that The Guardian's subeditors - come along now, none of us expect the people who write for the paper to grasp anything economic...
Canadian Meese Are Damn Good Swimmers
A report in from the colonial cousins in the Antipodes:
Ten Canadian moose landed here more than 100 years ago. A few intrepid Kiwis have...
The European Union’s GDPR Data Rules Only Increase The Amount Of Spam
We are all, of course, looking forward to getting out of that acranian organisation, the European Union. The latest example of the uselessness of...
Jessica Valenti – Mass Shootings Are All About Misogyny
To the man whose only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail. To Jessica Valenti everything is about, caused by and the...