London is burning, how did this happen?
Watching the riots on the rolling news channels a number of things were extremely obvious. Most of the criminal rioters were black, most of them were teenagers and most of […]
2011
Tottenham riots
Tottenham is a poor, socially deprived area in London where one of the key mechanisms of upwards social mobility is dealing in illegal recreational drugs. People who engage in this […]
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud does irony
So now we have the King of Saudi Arabia joining in the advice to the Syrian government, obviously as part of a multi national stand up comedy routine. And obviously […]
The Daily Mail and The Guardian are just the same as each other
The Daily Mail is the newspaper of choice for middle England. It is conservative with both a big C and a small c. And it has endless stories about welfare […]
President Dmitry Medvedev does irony
This is an absolute classic, talking about the current disgusting government violence against unarmed citizens in Syria, Medvedev said that the Syrians should: “carry out urgent reforms, come to terms […]
Sell in May and go away…………..
In an open market price is driven by just one factor, and that is sentiment. Mathematicians can use computers to come up with wonderful models, but at the end of […]
Bashar al-Assad is finished
Warning, not for the squeamish. So the UN Security Council find themselves unable to issue a resolution and instead make a statement, with one temporary member (Lebanon) dissociating themselves from […]
Chief Constable arrested for fraud and corruption
The Chief Constable of Cleveland Police, Sean Price, and his deputy, Derek Bonnard have both allegedly been arrested under suspicion of fraud and corruption. Which brings back the eternal problem […]
Police not doing their job
The Times newspaper used the Freedom of Information Act to ask police forces how many crimes went uninvestigated. From the replies they got from 21 out of 43 forces the […]
Libertarianism, the cure for our financial problems
There are two different ways to run a society, socialism and libertarianism. With libertarianism people are allowed to keep most of the money that they earn, they can then make […]
We need a cyber command
If I went to my local newsagents and inserted some hard core pornography pictures into the children’s magazines that are for sale there I would pretty soon find myself talking […]
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
So Iran seems to be trying very hard to make a nuclear bomb and you would wonder why they would go to so much effort and expense. Could it be […]