Top of the list today/tonight wherever you reside: how do we measure value (in the singular)? The value of something is multi-dimensional purely because it goes way beyond cash money. For example, a brand of Vodka costing $3.58US per litre in West Africa sounds like amazing 'value
Going off-grid and not being hooked up to the internet is an understandable desire. Sadly, the sociopathic 4% are determined that you will be hooked on the internet for any kind of money, service, food or connection to loved ones. Being hooked on anything has to be a bad idea.
Voting for something positive The latest YouGov opinion poll shows what looks at first sight like a quantum shift in the structure of UK politics. But is it really? YouGov’s second opinion survey since the 2024 British general election shows Reform UK within touching distance of winning a Westminster
We kick off today with a less than restrained analysis of Kamala Harris from the POTUS: FACT: America no longer deserves the title 'United States'. There has never been more fundamental cultural division in the First World. Hold that thought. Do you ever get the feeling you'
My mother and father met at a New Year's Eve dance in Manchester in 1940. Against the wishes of both families - he was a dirt-poor Catholic and she was a rather posh Protestant - they were married in St Thomas's Catholic Church [no flowers or
Governments used to design socio-economic policy based on the needs of the 96%. Now it's devised solely by and for the 4%. The Baby Boomer parents of the late 1940s begat the Beautiful People of the 1960s.....who in turn begat the Millennials born during the Noughties. But
I wrote these words to a valued pen-friend the other day: ‘The internet is, in so many ways, a liar's charter. What I've tried to give you tonight is absolute truth about Who I Am - as far as I can do that....because of late,
"Oh Lord, grant us the strength to make things better, and the wisdom to see what we cannot change" 14th century Monk's prayer At this pivotal point in the history of Homo sapiens, there are two absolutely central considerations to live by at all times: 1.
Make capitalism honest and mutual, or make yourself expendable 'Expendable definition: adjective of relatively little significance, and therefore able to be abandoned or destroyed' MUTUALITY -"a partnership based on mutual respect and understanding;co-operation based on the principle of mutuality – viz, respect for the feelings and
The British financial journalist Martin Wolf has been writing about fiscal economics and globalism for more years than I care to remember. I met him many years ago at a seminar in London organised by my client at the time, Barclays Bank, and found him both erudite and charming. Sadly,
At the moment, pretty much every Big business or institution with which I interreact is demanding the right to verify me....but very few of them are willing to come clean about their own preference for mendacity over vérité. For example, my Nationwide CEO Debbie Crosbie just awarded herself a
Longevity is a weird experience. I never expected it, and now it's here, very few people respect it any more. We live in a casually ageist era. One wonderful thing that comes with a 78th year of life is the wisdom of retaining a sense of humour in