Financial Eyes

Can a man be mansplained at? — Will Davies (@davies_will) 9 May 2016 I tend to flit from Mansplaining to Childsplaining. Not proud of this.

Bill and Melinda are betting that mobile phones, laptops, and GM food are to going mean that Africa will become healthier, smarter, and no longer obliged to import heavily subsidised US food.

Anti-semitism is a hot topic at the moment. London’s Mayoral election happens to be between a man whose father was a Jew and a man whose family is Muslim. The press are implying that Labour have a problem with anti-semitism. No…

A new Digital Bank just launched in the UK. Their investors include Spanish banking giant BBVA.

I am lost — in yesterday’s Philosophy of Infinity lesson we were told we’ll be meeting Godel’s Incompleteness later on in the course. I believe this precedes Turing Completeness — how are they connected? In November I saw a 2014 youtube interview in…

The US Government are right behind the Data Science Revolution. Patil argues that US requires a more porous government to enable collaboration between Government, Business, and Universities.

There is such a thing as Stockholm Syndrome — in which one falls in love with one’s captor. I wonder if it’s caused by a lack of or an overactive imagination — or by limited options — by scarcity of choice. After years of…

This is the best intro to APIs I’ve found so far.

  Now that Professor Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network is winning the argument on tax maybe some of Ezra Pound’s critics will have a rethink. Professor Murphy has just posted a message on his site in which he says: A government…

BBVA and Sutor Bank Join the Open Banking Movement

Chips Hardy (father of Tom Hardy) has written an excellent play about a wounded British soldier. Badly wounded in action by friendly fire, army veteran Moss lives in a small flat with his highly- strung nephew Carver. When Marta, a…

Ali Baba is one of the biggest companies in the world. Bigger than Amazon, Google, & Facebook. This film tells its story. #ALIBABA

According to They Work for You new DWP Chief Stephen Crabb took £2,000 off a Goldman Sachs Director, Lord Griffiths, in June 2015. Welshman Lord Griffiths is also a Director of Rupert Murdoch’s Times.  Before joining Goldman, Lord Griffiths was…

  Trump must be happy coming across as a remorselessly American buffoon — embodying America’s economic & psychological bravado & its associated insecurity. Arthur Koestler, in his 1964 book, The Act of Creation, claims the Joker intermediates between the Artist…

Multimillionaire Mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has voted to cut disability benefit by £30 a week despite being a patron of a local disability charity. According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times, Goldsmith has been a patron of Richmond Aid since…

According to the Independent  wealthy London Mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has just voted to cut disability benefit by £30 per week. When asked if his money stops him from understanding normal people, Goldsmith usually says that he was dealt a good hand in life but that…

Advice from House of Cards Author Michael Dobbs from today’s Telegraph