Sometime this morning I celebrated (with a coffee) the moment when this blog had its best ever month in terms of traffic. The previous best
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I watched both boat races yesterday. Why? Because I wanted Cambridge to won. They do, after all, train in my home city of Ely on
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I did another Twitter poll yesterday, because the Guardian highlighted concerns that members of the Labour Party have expressed about campaign materials produced by its
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I put this poll on Twitter yesterday: Let me say straight away, and before anyone else does, that I anm aware that such polls are
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A new commentator on this blog named Tony Wikrent made an interesting comment yesterday, saying, when discussing the purpose of economics: ”Many subscribe to Lionel
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I had a discussion with Neal Lawson of Compass, and others, this week on the subject of proportional representation. Many of the usual arguments were
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Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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In April 1938, President Franklin D Roosevelt sent a message to Congress in which he said: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths
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