Can Be Enterprise Attaining All I Know It Can From Social Media?
Can Be Enterprise Attaining All I Know It Can From Social Media? from Article DirectoryBe prepared to make mistakes inside your social media marketing. Blunders happen, and you need to observe the blunders you make as discovering experiences. There m...
You haven’t a prayer with the new atheists
As if the Guardian were not already preachy enough, it has signed up an actual preacher to write its leaders and op-eds. The Rev Dr Giles Fraser resigned as a canon of St Paul’s in sympathy with people camped on its doorstep for whom I think the ki...
Chris Huhne on crime and punishment
Wise words from a man who knows exactly what he’s talking about… …and may soon be able to speak with even more authority on the subject.
Chris Huhne on crime and punishment
Wise words from a man who knows exactly what he’s talking about… …and may soon be able to speak with even more authority on the subject.
Will German President Christian Wulff survive?
According to new poll 54 percent of Germans think President Wulff should step down. Question: Will pressure on Wulff increase or would you say he as able to manage it? Answers: Rüdiger Wurzel, Reader, Department of Politics and International Stud...
Will German President Christian Wulff survive?
According to new poll 54 percent of Germans think President Wulff should step down. Question: Will pressure on Wulff increase or would you say he as able to manage it? Answers: Rüdiger Wurzel, Reader, Department of Politics and International Stud...
Looking at some peacebuilding assumptions
My most recent post (29 Jan) reflected about peacebuilding inside the bounds of the European Union as well as outside. My thinking grew out of International Alert’s recently started work in the UK. Going a bit further, some more thoughts &#...
Simpsons’ Groundskeeper Willie prompts Scottish Parliament motion
In what has come as a huge blow for Glasgow City Council, The Simpsons writer Rob Lazebnik has revealed that Groundskeeper Willie — described by The Times as “the most recognisable Scot in the world” — officially hails from Kirkwall ...
Indictment of Switzerland's oldest bank Wegelin analyzed: audio
Switzerland's oldest bank, Wegelin, has been indicted by US prosecutors on charges of conspiring to conceal $1.2 billion in assets from American tax authorities. Click here to listen to an interview with tax attorney George Clarke from the law firm M...
Pussy Riot's Kremlin protest owes much to riot grrrl | Laura Barton
The 90s movement enabled a female voice to rise up and be heard. Now Russia's all-female punk band are doing the sameThe formation of Pussy Riot in Moscow last September was not a culmination of long-harboured musical ambition, songcraft or that stra...
David Cameron's letter to Chris Huhne: does praise get any fainter?
Reading David Cameron's letter to Chris Huhne, you could almost run away with the idea that the Prime Minister doesn't think all that highly of his erstwhile Energy Secretary. As I suggest in my Huhne sketch for tomorrow's paper, the PM's phrasing is...
Will Michael Gove's education reforms lead to the 'privatisation' of state education, as Left-wing critics claim? Unfortunately not
The opponents of education reform have been up to their usual tricks in the past few weeks, disseminating smears and misinformation. You have to admire their bull-headedness. As Fraser Nelson pointed out in a recent blog post for the Spectator, the a...
Seven Days in Europe
Pressure on Greece has intensified after international debt inspectors admitted an additional €15bn (£12.5bn) would be needed to fill a newly discovered black hole in the country’s finances. Germany has ruled out any extra contribution from...
German climatologists: The extreme cold weather in Europe is due to global warming!
The deep freeze has already claimed over 200 lives in Europe, with the death toll raising to 100 in Ukraine only. Forecasters are warning that the cold weather will tighten its grip at the weekend. Luckily, German climatologists at the Research...
Is Nice shirking its duty of care by blocking the Abiraterone prostate cancer therapy?
This week there has been much media interest in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice)'s refusal to recommend the drug Abiraterone for use by the NHS. Nice has made this decision despite acknowledging that Abiraterone has pr...
Imagine no recoveries in bank senior debt
Seems kinda churlish to throw this out amidst the biggest bank bond rally since 2009. But…We believe investors should assume a low (possibly 0%) recovery rate on most senior...
2014, 2013, 2012, Go!
The Americans and Europeans are starting to draw down their operations in Afghanistan, after a decade of often intense operations. How might this recalibration of forces be part of a wider geopolitical transformation? How should European respond?
Hungarian Town to Fight Erste Bank on Foreign Currency Debt
Hungarian town will push on with its plan and force Erste Bank to share the Swiss-franc debt burden it carries; it didn't share its profits from derivative deals though.
In Defence of Social Democracy
Firstly, I would like to thank David Miliband for taking seriously the arguments which were presented in my recent article in The Political Quarterly, ‘In Praise of Social Democracy’ co-authored with Roy Hattersley. Obviously we disagree over the...
Hungarian National Airline Calls it Quits
Hungary's national airline Malev has officially folded as it reached the end of its finances.
Inflation targeting, back in the frame
We know who’s brought this on. It was Ben Bernanke, last week, with confirmation of the Fed’s 2 per cent inflation target. We suspect it’s one debate that is...
Merkel, Barnier and the doomed DB-NYSE merger
The Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext exchange mega-merger is dead, the objections of competition officials prevailed, but it followed a tremendous political tussle in Brussels, full of intrigue and skulduggery. Here are some of the snippets from the...
Cyclists are pompous enough as it is – a Cycling Covenant would make them unbearable
Do we need really a Cycling Covenant to enshrine the rights of cyclists and curb the antics of truck-drivers? The Times seems to think so. Over the past week it has expended an enormous amount of energy on campaigning for better cycling safety. It wa...
Isak Gerson, founder of kopimist church: 'File-sharing' is not 'stealing'
‘We don’t believe in god at all,’ says Isak Gerson. However, this was no obstacle for the 20-year-old Swedish philosophy student to establish the missionary church of kopimism (from ‘copy + me’) – a church without hierarchy, whose 6000 fo...
Ed Davey speeds to the airport
It appears that traffic cameras aren’t the only way to track the historical movements of cabinet ministers. We trust the new energy secretary maintained an appropriate speed in these poor driving conditions.
Could “green growth” fix Europe’s economy?
Mexico, which is currently chairing the G20 group of major economies, wants to put “green growth” at the heart of any global economic recovery. Is this a cynical ploy to “greenwash” economic growth, or is it a genuine attempt...
Defining Deviancy Downward
"The abandonment of the reproductive function is the common feature of all perversions. We actually describe a sexual activity as perverse if it has given up the aim of reproduction and pursues the attainment of pleasure as an aim independent of it.
More information on our privacy policy changes
Update, Tuesday 28 February, 14:30 CET: Today we received a letter from the CNIL, and we have responded with this letter. Last night we received a letter from the Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Europe's Article 29 Working Party, asking for additio...
The tragedy of Chris Huhne
It was inevitable that he had to go – in fairness, it had been coming for some time. The spectre of the court case hung over him, further tarnishing his credibility. Powerful friends and allies had already exhausted their capacity for patience...
