Sell in May and go away…………..
In an open market price is driven by just one factor, and that is sentiment. Mathematicians can use computers to come up with wonderful models, but at the end of […]
Bruce
Bashar al-Assad is finished
Warning, not for the squeamish. So the UN Security Council find themselves unable to issue a resolution and instead make a statement, with one temporary member (Lebanon) dissociating themselves from […]
Chief Constable arrested for fraud and corruption
The Chief Constable of Cleveland Police, Sean Price, and his deputy, Derek Bonnard have both allegedly been arrested under suspicion of fraud and corruption. Which brings back the eternal problem […]
Police not doing their job
The Times newspaper used the Freedom of Information Act to ask police forces how many crimes went uninvestigated. From the replies they got from 21 out of 43 forces the […]
Libertarianism, the cure for our financial problems
There are two different ways to run a society, socialism and libertarianism. With libertarianism people are allowed to keep most of the money that they earn, they can then make […]
We need a cyber command
If I went to my local newsagents and inserted some hard core pornography pictures into the children’s magazines that are for sale there I would pretty soon find myself talking […]
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
So Iran seems to be trying very hard to make a nuclear bomb and you would wonder why they would go to so much effort and expense. Could it be […]
How and why the welfare state is abused
If people know they can steal with zero chance of getting caught then mostly they will. We see this with video games for PCs where the theft rate, by illicit […]
Anders Behring Breivik, a freemason terrorist
Well, it looks like the mass murdering nutter Anders Behring Breivik is a freemason. His FaceBook page had a picture of him wearing masonic kit and his “manifesto” makes repeated […]
It is silly season
Now is the time of year when MPs take their extended summer breaks and when, traditionally, the major source of news shuts down. Newspapers usually fill up their pages with […]
UK media ownership proposals
This whole phone hacking saga has brought the ownership, and therefore the political power, of UK media to the fore, and quite rightly so. For far too long far too […]
Cameron supreme in parliament
Yesterday was a virtuoso display from David Cameron in the House of Commons. Before it Ed Milliband had been calling for Cameron to resign, by the end of the day […]