The chap in the next seat in my office is going through a messy divorce at the moment so I’m getting a blow by blow account of his trials and tribulations. The tragedy is that he was a devoted husband and father, never wanted it, never expected it and is now facing financial ruin in [...]
Since the inception of the White House “War on Terror” we have been fed a constant diet in the media of Middle-Eastern politics and ethnic divisions simplified to the point of reductio ad absurdum. Historical context is conveniently side-stepped with candour in order to present a picture to support our state policy du jour and [...]
Wolfowitz : In the service of his Dark Lord?
I will admit that when I first heard the news that Paul Wolfowitz was being proposed by the Americans for Chairman of the World Bank I was quite dismayed by the choice of a man so tainted by an ongoing and catastrophic war and I could not [...]
I watched Molly Dineen’s excellent documentary “The Lie of the Land” (C4 9:00pm Thursday) on the state of British farming in the aftermath of the ban on fox-hunting and the government’s “Single Payment” scheme this week.
Oddly enough this important issue gets little interest from the media even in the context of tackling climate change and [...]
In what could be construed a promotion I am now working on a new high-profile project which will revolutionalise our risk evaluation strategies with considerably more advanced algorithms. This is being driven by in part the growth of debt securitisation and also by new technology, such as multi-core processors and grid processing frameworks, which allows [...]
