Greece: Voices Dying with a Dying Fall
It didn’t get much notice, but this small news item caught my eye: on Thursday,…
Tag: society
Mitt Romney: the (Groucho) Marxist
I generally wake up before dawn to the sound of the News Briefing on BBC…
The Absence of Why
The massacre in Tuscon which killed six (including a 9 year old child and a…
Heathrow Madness
My self-imposed vacation from blogging fell at the first hurdle. Admittedly, it has been a…
What Happened at Millbank Tower
Far from being happy about the violence, most of the students at Demolition 2010 were…
Happy Birthday, John Lennon
Had John Lennon lived, he would have turned 70 today. Celebrating his music seems a…
The Deserving Poor
It’s long been forgotten, but there was a mini-recession between 2000 and early 2003. It…