When your friends say you have lost your way, it is time to listen

Charles Clover’s recent piece on WWF’s 50th is eye opening.  Olivetti, Hudson Bay Trading Company, Rover are former mighty companies. They are no longer with us. They failed to transform and change. They often forgot why they were in business.  These companies  have thankfully died, to see  scarce resources invested elswhere, and have better things … Read more

North Africa’s Dictators Go Fishing for the Last Blue Fin Tuna

The sons of dictators lives are kept busy. Mubarak’s sons have been arrested and questioned on how they became so rich through property deals in Egypt, London and elsewhere. But, the press has not picked up some very fishy links. Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi, the well known benefactor of the LSE, is also the major … Read more

What to Do on 29 April

The British government are urging the British people to take to their streets and celebrate a wedding. Not any wedding, but the heir to the British crown. If you are laid up on the day of national celebration, and unable to take to the streets in mass state sponsored celebration, you may enjoy Thomas Paine’s … Read more