Britain has had a hundred years to perfect its own decline. The pound, which once measured a quarter of the world’s trade, now buys less than it did in 1900 even before the inflation adjustment. [more…]
For Australia I went to an upscale university. Sydney is, I think, the oldest one and along with Melbourne, New South and the ANU the most highly regarded It’s not Oxford or Harvard but the [more…]
Perhaps the one aspiration all parties bar the Greens hold is to try to engineer some growth into the economy. Most of the blame attaches to the Treasury but the country seems unable to accomplish [more…]
The popular conception of politics, taught in schools and reinforced by every TV sofa politics show, is that the people elect representatives, the representatives debate the laws, and the laws are then administered by a [more…]
Before George Stephenson’s name ended up on everything, a colliery manager from Newburn settled the one argument that decided whether railways would ever work. He won it with a hand-cranked cart, two iron engines, and [more…]
Back in the office Sally was smiling. “I’ve found him, but Valerie is struggling, when you have had a coffee, can you sit with her.” “Who is he?” “Stephen Williams, aged twenty seven, I have [more…]
Sit yourselves down, Puffins, pour yourself a large one, & harken to the sorry tale of a chorus girl, the son of a US railroad robber baron, and the murdered architect Stanford White, in a [more…]
40 or 50 years ago the SCG was probably the best place in the world to watch cricket. Sure Lord’s was more dignified and places like the MCG and Eden Gardens were bigger but this [more…]
When a bank flags a transaction as suspicious, it is not usually because someone has confessed to a crime. It is because the numbers do not make sense. A property sells for three times its [more…]
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