More bad PR for the United Arab Emirates, which has attempted to paint itself as an oasis of cosmopolitanism and entrepreneurialism in the Arab world. First,...
Jules Evans
Jules Evans is a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website, Philosophy for Life), and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).
#Smeargate
The smeargate story rumbles on, though the reporting on it is patchy. I thought the Evening Standard, on Tuesday evening, got right to the heart of it,...
Water cap and trade
Just did an interesting interview with Neil Eckert, the CEO of Climate Exchange PLC. They're the private company that owns the European Climate Exchange,...
Death by blog
The blogosphere can be fairly brutal. This weekend, it is busy consuming the political careers of two New Labour apparatchiks - Derek Draper, who runs the...
‘Oh Dear’-ism
The highlight of last night's Newswipe - Charlie Brooker's rather weak British answer to the Daily Show in the US - was a brief video by Adam Curtis, the...
KGB versus reality TV
While we in the UK genuflect before the shrine of reality TV and its patron saint, St Jade of Essex, in Russia, minister of interior and KGB tough-guy Rashid...
Is Geithner breaking the law?
Just adding to my post below, there's an excellent interview by Bill Moyers at PBS with William Black, an American academic expert in fraud, and one of the...
Another bank scam?
Schroders' head of ABS, Chris Ames, thinks the Public-Private Investment Programme (PPIP) set up by US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner is in danger of being...
Banks: utilities or casinos?
I was at a very interesting little conference at the Liberal Club yesterday, on the 'future of the financial industry'. The first speaker was Vince Cable, who...
Wall Street on Ice
In the latest Vanity Fair, a brilliant article by Michael Lewis (author of Liar's Poker) on Iceland. It's a sad, funny and surreal story: An entire nation...
Japan begins to take climate change seriously
In the last few weeks, Japan has spent just under $1bn buying carbon emission rights from Ukraine and the Czech Republic, as it scrambles to meet its Kyoto...
The Put People First march
People in the City are muttering about being invaded by a horde of Swampies this weekend, for the Put People First march. There's sure to be a lot of angry...
Who’s who in the Niger Delta
Check out Stratfor's funky interactive graphic of power politics in the Niger Delta. It has a graph showing the relationships between all the big players in...
What kind of carbon trading system for the US?
There looks likely to be another acrimonious debate in the US over President Obama's plan to auction 100% of the carbon permits generated if the US signs up...
Finance goes medieval
I think we're going through a commercial revolution in reverse. In the 12th - 14th century, finance gradually worked its way free of ecclesiastical limits,...
Russia looking to capitalise on the crunch
The Kremlin has been shaken by the credit crunch, which hit the Russian stock exchange worse than any other exchange in 2008, pushing it down around 65%. The...
Climate change protest this Thursday
There's a climate change protest in Coventry this Thursday lunchtime, led by NASA scientist James Hansen, and organised by Christian Aid. It is partly...
How to get politicians to take global warming seriously
Political leaders are driven by a desire for power. They will tend to follow whatever is politically expedient in order to gain power. Right now, it is...
What will the world be like, 4°C warmer?
Fairly sobering cover story in New Scientist this week, by the aptly-named Gaia Vince, a freelance journalist who apparently is 'wandering the world', like a...
Bringing back National Service
Just thinking through how our society copes with climate change. One way might be to bring back national service. Why? 1) We need to train a generation of...
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