It seems that Gordon Brown has forgotten his mission, to save the world! Leading up to the G20 summit there was a lot of publicity about the changes that were going to be made. Everyone was going to strengthen their regulatory systems, there was going to be a new Bretton Woods agreement. Alas and alack! …
Certainly, it was against my expectations! The Lions played the better Rugby, took their chances, and ran with the ball. This is what Rugby was always about! When I read that John Smit was concerned about the citing and subsequent banning of Bakkies Botha for his shoulder charge into Adam Jones in a ruck, I …
We hear the pundits talking about green shoots, and listen to the commentators pointing to rises in Stock Exchange prices and hope that things are improving … but are they? We need to understand that there are in fact two economies. A real economy and a speculative economy. It is the speculative economy that is …
By definition Democracy is "Government for the people, by the people." In the UK we operate the "Westminster system" which is a winner takes all system, and results in a "political party" autocracy. We consider this strong government, but if we analyse it carefully we see that it is little different from a dictatorship. Yes, …
Or simply set fire to them? Me thinks its time to clean out the pig pen! While many of the issues being raised over the expenses of MPs sound very bad, the issue is really simple. Over an extended period of time MPs instead of sorting out their pay packages have resorted to giving themselves …
I guess it is always easier to criticise, however this is not meant as a criticism of Alistair Darling’s budget, which under the circumstances was about the best he could do. He was faced with a quandry similar to the nursery rhyme which went something like this; “Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, but …
I will largely quote from an article written by Julian Delasantellis and published in the Asia Times, while it deals with how the USA decided against regulating the derivatives market, I want you to keep Gordon Brown's instruction to the FSA to regulate the Banking sector with a light touch in mind. In the USA, …
Here is a Guardian Headline Weak pound helps exports. Fall in sterling slashes UK trade deficit On reading we see that they are mainly talking about our February trade with Non-EU countries. Where our deficit fell by £1.6 … however our deficit with EU countries grew by £1.1 billion, While any decrease in our overall …
This last year has perhaps been the most serious in the Computing Security Industry. In April last year I ran into the first "zombie" computer (a computer that has been "captured" by a botnet as is now practically outside the owners control), it was being used as a spam robot. It had been invaded by …