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The fallout to the Uk is pretty hard to read. You'd expect it'd be pretty bad (or good, depending on how you look at things, hey gek?), but then again, most of our exports go to europe. If the US recession is stimulated by oil switching to Euros, europe would presumably gain spending power, so...

Yeah, those crazy Scandinavians. Why do they get to have all the fun? Still, I sure wouldn't want to work in the finance dept. of that bank. Their finance director must have chrome balls.

Well... It may be a reasonable ambition to try and gain efficiencies in the public sector by seeking analogies with the mechanisms of the private sector. But frankly, if you analyse the analogy correctly, the manner in which they've done this is pathetically inconsistent. There are 3...

Hang on... So what are we all suggesting should replace a system of targets? If there is no clear objective behind any organisation, it is bound to end up being a sprawling mass of ineffectual individuals pulling in different directions. Almost by definition, if you don't have clear...

Yes indeedy, things could get mighty interesting over the coming years, with the potential collapse of the dollar. You don't need me to remind you of how America's indebted to the hilt, primarily bankrolled by the Chinese. So far, they've gotten away with it, because oil is currently traded in...

In reading this, I think the crucial question to ask is: "How is this different from a neo-con perspective?" (allowing room for a neo-con agenda built upon principals, rather than considering them as simply being corrupt bastards, committed to their own interests alone and/or the interests of...

The crucial problem with Bobono is that both are fully paid up members of Capitalist Realism, believing that current system can work with just a few tweaks here and there, essentially. Bono's endorsement of the AMEX RED card, whereby 1% goes to a global fund to fight AIDS is a perfect...

The softer, less conspiratorial angle on all of this is that, yes, it is designed to enable changes to business regulation. They've tried to pass acts to speed up this process before, but none of them really worked, because it's hard to come up with a wording that isn't so vague that it could...

This is called, Traffic, I think, and yes indeed, it has the potential to drastically confuse skankers everywhere when the smoke clears and they realise that they're effectively headbanging.

The replies I've seen from Labour MPs on this all toe the party line squarely about how this would only be used to cut through red tape, and don't worry kids, we won't abuse it, honest, etc. Then, I see this: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/31cb7d20-ca5a-11da-852f-0000779e2340.html which suggests...

Whilst it's always good to see some insurrection, and i wish it would become more widespread, in the case of the current French riots I can't help but disagree with their particular beef. The point of the reform is to create a more dynamic labour market for youth. The result will be that...

Fair point. Given that highbrow media sneering, it'll be fun to see if them all do a u-turn and use him to boost circulation. Nothing. It's just another piece of hearsay to add to the pile (except with a mildly closer source to me). Of all I've seen of him though, I can't help get the feeling...

Has anyone caught this show on Resonance? Listen here: http://karmabanqueradio.blogspot.com/ Wise words, delivered with passion, acid humour and ludicrous metaphor. This week: "hermaphrodite, cross-dressing polar bears should be the mascot for the new tories". Wonderful stuff. Considering...

When I first heard that GG was going on CBB, my initial thoughts were that his motivation was probably just to massage his saturn-sized ego (no matter what he says). But whilst I think he's a corrupt narcisist, he can at least make some very valid arguments (his little trip to the states last...

I've just realised that that is one of the most frightening things I've ever read, and utterly confirms my worst fears.

Quite. This is part of the reason why I've come here - to determine whether this is a genuine phenomenon, or whether I'm just getting old. It seems to me that there enough older heads who have been through this aging process years ago saying similar things, which seems to verify more of a...

I don't think it's necessary for music to have an "effect", per se. Would you make the same demands of other art forms? What "effect" did, say, Crime and Punishment have? Art's effects are private, and so difficult to evaluate. It's about new ways of interpreting the world, surely? It's...

I had feared that my continual disappointment with contemporary rock music was nothing more than a symptom of my entering my mid 20s. But, after reading of so many others writing rock’s eulogy (e.g. http://www.cinestatic.com/whorecull/music/2005_11_01_archive.asp#113147304508265198 ), it’s...