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Speaking Of Big Macs (The Burger Kind This Time)
If you haven’t already done so then check out The Economist’s Big Mac Index (one for the bookmarks); a...
If you haven’t already done so then check out The Economist’s Big Mac Index (one for the bookmarks); a...
The European Graduate School has done us all a fantastic service by putting up on YouTube Slavoj Zizek’s recent...
Here’s the rest of the stuff that caught my eye over the last two weeks,
Here’s a picture I took last August, which gives you some idea what Hong Kong looks like on a...
For anyone interested in the current (near-worldwide) crisis in housing prices and housing finance, there are some formidable and...
Last week I finally got around to watching Rusell Peters’ stand up comedy DVD – Outsourced. Some seriously funny...
The Namesake – Very impressive work from Mira Nair, director of the excellent Monsoon Wedding (adapted from a novel...
A recent email raised an interesting question I’ve been asked a few times about the nature of fundamentalism. Typically,...
I’m a city person. I don’t much like farms and I tend to avoid the countryside (with the exception...
Making generalizations about groups of people isn't new. But, the internet seems to be making this worse, a trend...
It’s an ugly spectacle; watching your football team collapsing under the weight of public rancour and outcry. Chelsea’s home...
Here’s a few things that caught my eye this week, YouTube, Flickr Become Forces For Cultural Change – In...
I’ve been slowly making my way through Jeremy Paxman’s recent MacTaggart Lecture, trying to take seriously the question of...
Staff Benda Bilili are an amazing congolese band made up of handicapped musicians. They have recently made the news...
From something I wrote in February 2001, “Of course, the question remains if we will ever truly be ‚Äúfellow...
After last weeks little tirade against the current US president I’m almost loathe to write a follow-up. But, it...