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As discussed in the pub(lishing) house

A Very Important Statement It occurs to me that, if I remember rightly, I have been accused of being an opinionated bastard once or twice in the dim and distant past. Also, if memory serves, arrogant, forthright, a smart-arse, haughty, contemptuous and just a tad...

An Economy of (un)Truth : 2

Financial Services Authority, or… Lies, lies and more lies On the face of it, the FSA looks like an institution you can trust, doesn’t it? And in many ways, this is true, just as you can trust a tiger to do its best to eat you, or Chloe Smith to be…...

An Economy of (un)Truth : 1

Eyes wide shut What I find really difficult to get my head around, is why, after years of watching the biggest and slowest car-crash that is the international banking ‘industry’, I and the rest of the smart-arses didn’t say or do anything about it. OK, in the nature...

Poo Sticks

Crapping out We think we’re oh-so-civilised, us mostly-whitey, ‘Western’, ‘democratic’ citizens. Looky here: we got moolah (a.k.a. debts), tellyvision, cheap flights to the under-world, gadgets-a-plenty, kumquats and sushi, unarranged...

Brusselology: Part the First (of many)

A tale of two cities In case you’re expecting a feather-spitting rant about the Evil Empire – wrong place dude. This is just the opening salve/salvo about the iniquities and iquities of living in the capital of Belgium Land. Otherwise known as the City of...

An end to all wars. Maybe.

It’s the little things… Whatever an aeon is, people have been wondering why there are so many wars for lots of them (aeons, that is). It’s a topic that has been discussed to within an inch (2,4 cm for my contimental readers) of its life (and death)....