Jonathan Freedland has a great edition of "The Long View", the BBC Radio show that draws historical parallels. He proposes the analogy between the use of relics to
Nasim Taleb has a great piece in the FT arguing that the economics Nobel's are not just clever but dishonest marketing, but are actually damaging to the financial
Representative, or did you mean representative, or maybe representative? The question of representation has been discussed a great deal in openDemocracy's coverage of Tomorrow's Europe poll.
I was very kindly invited to YouGovStone's Evening Standard Influentials Debate on the London Housing Crisis. Debating and its role in the creation of a Public Space is
You can't be involved for long with openDemocracy - or with any serious new-media publication - without soon needing a reply to the "cheap-talk" challenge: "
The beautifully named SIV Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit (SMLEC), the fund the big investment banks are putting together to rescue each other, is a stitch-up. Roubini has a dense
HSBC, my bank, has been acting strangely lately. I called them for some simple shuffling of funds from one place to another, and they immediately started suggesting that I move
RGEMonitor, long my favourite reading on macro-economics (at least the non-subscription pieces of it ...), has launched an open Euro-economics publication at http://www.rgemonitor.com/euro-monitor.
On 6 May 1997, the BBC ran a picture of a youthful, determined, courageous Gordon Brown with the text "...the bank will now be free to decide monetary policy
Thanks to a generous grant, we are extending our Russia coverage.
We are looking for an editor to lead the new section. It will focus on publishing international material of
Professor Detlef Pollack presented the NEF/van Leer conference with some data on secularisation in Europe: are we becoming less religious? can it be measured? is it getting faster or
Sarkozy has established the chillingly named Ministère de l'Immigration, de l'Intégration, de l'Identité nationale et du Codéveloppement..
Does this make immigration a ``national identity
