non-Thursday music link
Music! Bonus extra: If I scripted something to chuck random music links into a G+ hangout, would anyone listen?
Read More non-Thursday music linkFebruary 5, 2012
we know where your dog goes to school
A while ago I noticed that a detailed story in Le Monde about their telecoms-interception-scandal-of-the-week had bizarrely vanished from their archives. It is baaack and I can share it with you! So if you read French and want to know what happens, in operational detail, when a prosecutor orders an illegal trawl of call-detail records…
Read More we know where your dog goes to schoolnonlinear response to interest rates
Just to recover something from my twitter feed, last Friday, BT announced its Q4 results and (among other things) its management said that they were scaling down their capital investment plans, and that one of the reasons was low interest rates. What? Well, as a UK company BT has to capitalise the net surplus or…
Read More nonlinear response to interest ratesChurchill was wrong for most of his career, you know…
This Ha’aretz piece is interesting for the insight it gives into Israeli policy and especially into process, but also for a couple of other things. Notably, it’s remarkably frank about the Obama administration deliberately trying to stop Netanyahu going to war, and the role of dodgy casino guy Sheldon Adelson in both US and Israeli…
Read More Churchill was wrong for most of his career, you know…fighting the real enemy
Con “WMD” Coughlin’s piece in the Torygraph is worthy of close reading. You’ll note that this: Whitehall was caught off guard by the seriousness of the situation in Helmand province, where British troops were deployed in Nato’s reconstruction programme. Most Labour ministers supported the view of John Reid, the defence secretary at the time, that…
Read More fighting the real enemyThis is not a mafia business. This relies on credit!
Via Jamie Kenny, a must-read translation of a Chinese investigative report into the case of Wu Ying, a Chinese businesswoman who is in deep trouble with the law. What’s interesting here is that the report provides a deep view into some of the most important interfaces in the political economy of China – between the…
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