Trump’s Silly Idea Of Tariffs Over China’s IP Thefts
We had all rather assumed that the Know Nothing Party was just an historical episode in US politics, not something we were about to...
Why Should Tax Pay For The Hudson River Gateway Project?
There's a distinct lack of imagination in certain reactions to the Hudson River Gateway Project in New York. Or perhaps between New York and...
That Mainstream Media Isn’t Understanding Facebook
From our special correspondent, Wessex Man:
The New York Times tells us:
Debates over privacy have plagued Facebook for years. But the news that Cambridge Analytica,...
British Police Just Got A Pay Rise, Busting Public Sector Pay Restraint
Imagine that you want to give your workers a pay rise. But you don't actually control their pay, someone a level above you controls...
Scared of AI? You really shouldn’t be…
As a young teen I remember watching the Forbin project, not long after I'd seen Kubrick's 2001. Both films featured computers that had ideas...
Savour The Rich Ignorance Of Robert Reich On Stock Buybacks
We have it on good authority, from an eminence no less grise than Paul Krugman, that Robert Reich doesn't know his economics. Even with...
Aren’t These Millennials Going To Be Surprised When They Find Out The Truth About...
A most amusing piece over in Salon about how American millennials are certain that capitalism just ain't gonna be around in the future therefore...
The US Ban On Venezuela’s Petro Is A Bad, Bad Idea – Let It...
The United States has decided to ban - in the form of sanctions - transactions in Venezuela's new cryptocurrency, the Petro. This is a...
Theranos Isn’t A Silicon Valley Disaster At All
There's a growing insistence that the Theranos fraud is evidence that Silicon Valley didn't work - that's not quite true, in fact it's not...
Willy Hutton Really Doesn’t Grasp The Economics And Politics Thing
Regular readers will know I've not a great deal of admiration for the economic ability of Will Hutton. He's the one trick, that Britain...