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Ritchie’s insisting your pension be invested with the Venture Capitalists again 7 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
He gets very angry with me when I point this out to him but it is still true: And then, thirdly, this process has to be continued into the future. We have to ensure that there is ongoing real investm...
Does Ritchie actually know any Keynesian economics? 7 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Output is growing: I won’t deny it if that’s what the ONS says. But a boost in growth based on the household savings rate falling, business re-stocking after a period of such low confidence, …… is not...
This is fun about Godders 7 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
On the Bongo Bongo land comments: But the ticking off is unlikely to end the controversy over Mr Bloom’s remarks, because Ukip is about to publish its list of candidates for next year’s elections to ...
Is Bianca Jagger really this dim? 7 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July. I felt compelled to lend my support after I received Twitter requests from concerned residents ask...
A little suggestion for a business opportunity 7 Aug 2013 | 12:29 pm
A piece about how various singers and songwriters are getting screwed out of their royalties. Brice is not the only featured artist to have had such problems with Fragma. Kirsty Hawkshaw, former fron...
Timmy elsewhere 7 Aug 2013 | 11:45 am
At the ASI. On Marianna Mazzucato’s latest silliness.
Numerate journalist of the day 6 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
The Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford is one of the most dangerous workplaces in the world. From 1944 to 1989 it produced 74,000 tons of weapons-grade plutonium-239. No, really, just no. I might,...
Well, yes, obviously 6 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
But the point is obvious. He’s nakedly gerrymandering the system to secure votes. This is what politicians do. Which is why the Courageous State is such a bad idea of course. It’ll be implemented by ...
Deeply unsure about this seabed mining to be honest 6 Aug 2013 | 12:41 pm
The Cook Islands hopes to transform itself into one of the world’s richest countries within a decade by sending robots to the sea floor to collect minerals that it believes are worth tens of billions ...
Yet even more on the Foxconn/Apple suicides story 6 Aug 2013 | 12:31 pm
Just checking in with the legal eagles who read this blog: After her suicide attempt, Yu received a one-off “humanitarian payment” of ¥180,000 (£18,000) to help her go home. According to her father: ...
