Thursday, 1 January 2015

Bad Predictions Are Usually A Failure Of The Imagination

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If bad predictions are a failure of imagination, then look at this one for a whopper…. " Inventions have long-since reached their...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014

There's Foolish....And Then There's FOOLISH

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If I set you all a challenge: see how many clowns you can gather together in the shortest time, you'd probably contact all the circu...
Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Thomas Piketty Winning Business Book Of The Year Is Like Luis Suarez Winning Football Ambassador Of The Year

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  The recent bestseller “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by the French Marxist economist Thomas Piketty has been rattling a few c...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

My Top 68 Albums Of All Time

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After writing a blog post on what I think are overrated albums, I thought I'd give it a fuller context by writing one about my favou...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014

10 Supposedly 'Great' Albums That Are Overrated

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 ……well, in my opinion of course!! NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS - The Sex Pistols This album got a lot of credit because it helped s...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Let's Have Social Beneficence With A Big “S” & State With A Small ‘s’

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Oh ah, a day after my blog post on the recent issues surrounding charity, the church and the State, we have The Guardian’s Zoe Williams p...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

The Award For Biggest Misunderstanding In An Article This Year Goes To………..

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  Aditya Chakrabortty, for this moment of half-wittery in his Guardian article: "Officers and researchers sat down and wo...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

The Church of England & The State Should Play To Their Strengths

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The Church of England has some confused views about economics. In my mind there are too many church spokespeople calling for us to move ...