The Unbearable Contradictions Of Monetary Policy
An interesting little note from Ambrose Evans Pritchard. There are two different things we're trying to achieve at present. We'd like to have loose...
WeWork And A Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Capitalism
I'll agree that WeWork wasn't the brightest idea ever. Well, except perhaps for Neumann. But that doesn't excuse some smug git in New York...
The Terrors Of Price Comparison Websites
This is one of the less strong complaints about the current body politic. Advertising costs money, so it does:
Up to a third of drivers’...
Quantum Computing Explained In Its Totality, Including The Cats
This is all we need to know about quantum computing, easily understood:
That is, as soon as you understand why that doesn't work as an...
It’s Microsaving That Matters, Not Microcredit
The beginning of this pieces is a little elision around a political point. Yunus and Grameen are not flavour of the month in current...
The UK’s Credit Outlook Was Cut – Don’t Panic!
Moody's cut the UK's credit outlook - that means not the rating, but which direction the rating might change in next time they have...
How Not To Do Science – Bedhopping Aristocracy
We'll not bother to go into who gets this wrong, the Telegraph or the scientists, but wrong it is. What they're measuring is the...
And Yet Endometriosis Literally Is Hysterical
Yet another of these whines, whinges, that medicine doesn't understand women's bodies. This all being a patriarchal, no doubt capitalist, oppression of women.
Well, no,...
Mr. Whippy PhD
Back when I was a wee nipper, an ice-cream van came to my school.
Schoolchildren routinely fed lumpy mash, overcooked veg, gristly meat and then...
We Are Greatly Surprised That Hillary Clinton Speaks With Forked Tongue
Shocked we tell you, shocked.
Actually, we are shocked, because we thought that Hillary was, while devious, bright enough to be able to keep...