This evening, Nick Griffin, the leader of Britain's neofascist British National Party, makes his debut on the BBC's flagship panel discussion show, Question...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
Johnson 2 – 0 Paxman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgThJK8xfKw[/youtube]
Secret plots to replace the dollar as global reserve currency: AlJazeera talks to Robert Fisk
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDPGkW6SCU[/youtube]
Q: Why’s the dollar in freefall? A: Robert Fisk.
Tumultuous times for the dollar this week. Gold has hit an all-time high three days in a row (this morning it's at $1,045 troy ounce - it was only $990 on 29...
Global economic imbalances: where we are
From Martin Wolf in the FT.
Europe: you’re either with us or against us
Honestly, how tedious enthusiasts for European integration are - almost as tedious as avowed Eurosceptics, in fact. Despite the fact that Euro-cheerleaders...
Deutsche Bank: oil at $175 a barrel by 2016 – then back to $70 by 2030
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Keanu Reeves, John Cleese and, er, global level non-zero-sum co-operation
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Stop Blair? No thanks.
Now that ratification of Lisbon has moved a big step closer (not only with the Irish yes, but also the news that Czech President Vaclav Klaus is likely to bow...
Time to dust off an old (Jan 08) classic…
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5 years ago today: Jon Stewart takes on CNN’s Crossfire
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE[/youtube]
IMF head joins elite club of shoe targets
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a_56l6Wx8g[/youtube]
What. Just. Happened?
Exhibit A: I grew up in a family, a party and a country that believes no obstacle is so great that it can stop the onwards march of fairness and of justice....
Carbon dioxide: good for you, good for the planet
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCQHn-w0Bw[/youtube]
The first thing to go wrong in every horror movie…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0[/youtube]
Gaddafi’s rhetorical masterpiece: a sample
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQ6aFqprds[/youtube]
Is the UN still relevant?
CNN discussion on Lou Dobbs's show a couple of nights ago - featuring CIC's Director Bruce Jones.
Emissions have peaked! (Shame NGOs don’t call for them to do so til 2017…)
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Best protest signs of the year: my top three
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Why Obama should put a climate-sceptical Senator on the Copenhagen delegation
With Senate climate legislation set to be introduced within a week, it's gradually sinking in fully around the rest of the world that however loved-up we may...
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