How star central banker Mark Carney turned into a Brexit target – via @FT Did Roy Hodgson or Fabio Capella come under this kind of sustained pressure to go? Who could they possibly replace him with? Or is the…
Health and safety prosecutions treble in a year – via @FT Figures found via FOI by a law firm
FCA accuse Sunday Telgraph of laundering RBS's reputation as FCA continues to . . . launder RBS's reputation.
Carney out Farage in. Tory press are committing treason by not holding this shambolic government to account.
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Deconstructing the contradictions in Saturday's Guardian and a primer on Trumpy climate denial vs Clinton Greenwash.
Fallon Bypasses Brexit to Block EU Army Sir Michael Fallon has been unmasked as one of the UK’s biggest security threats. The FT has dug up a document addressed to the Defence Minister by General Sir Richard Barrons, the recently-retired head of the country’s Joint Forces…
Post-Brexit EU Reform Two groups of EU countries are banding together to call for stricter internal and external border controls and an end to austerity at the first full post-Brexit EU meeting in Bratislava on Friday. Club Med Last Friday…
Attention This week Japan wrote an open letter threatening Britain with divorce. The Japanese government said its firms could quit UK over Brexit-related uncertainty. [gview file=”http://londonconversation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/japan-letter-1.pdf”] And the Financial Times advised British companies to pay attention. A Call to ARMs But despite this, Japan’s SoftBank snapped…
What phone have you got? Apple / Samsung / Something Else Have you had it long? New / Less than a year / More than a Year Has it always worked? Yes / No What do you do…
Strange to see FT’s resident Bilderberger Martin Wolf attacking University reform last week. Anthony Seldon is often quoted in the Sunday Times as an Education and Happiness Expert. He is Blair and Cameron’s official biographer and believes in “student experience”.…
Vaz Quits Pillar of the establishment, Keith Vaz, has just resigned his position after being caught paying rent boys to have sex with him in his £2 million North London home. After the recent “Brexit” coup d’état the May…
Crick Institute — Charity or Business? With funding from several Health Trusts, Universities, and Research Institutes, the £650m Crick Institute is a registered charity and will have 1000 scientists and 250 support staff by the end of the year. The…
UK Universities are adopting aggressive marketing strategies to compete in the Global Higher Education supermarket according to today’s Sunday Times. As well as offering free masters, iPads, and Premier League Football tickets, Universities are also incentivising overseas students to recruit…
The Sunday Times claim a leaked document has revealed that David Cameron and Oliver Letwin wanted to “cap taxes for the banks”. According to the leaked memo Letwin endorsed Cameron’s plans for an “aggregated City tax take” which would have prevented…
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Handing €1.1 trillion of public money to ANONYMOUS bankers with no publicly available audit trail is an act so corrupt as to be beyond comprehension. Yet that is what…
Jeremy Corbyn delighted Remain Boss, Roland Rudd, with his multiple TV appearances & speeches in the run-up to the EU referendum vote. Rudd admitted this on Bloomberg TV two days before the vote. The exact quote is at 3m 37s:…
It is well known that Tony Blair has friends in high places and that, legally speaking, he knows how to get away with anything. Teflon Tony He is known as Teflon Tony because, although bad things are said about him,…
Oliver “Deregulation Bill” Letwin has been appointed head of the Number 10 Brexit Unit. In this Defence Select Committee video taken today he is questioned about the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. Given that he is ex-Rothschild and the author of a…
How does scaling benefit London? Does the same principle apply to Brussels? Should power in Brussels really be seen as so much worse than in London? Izabella Kaminska asked Geoffrey Brian West at the FT’s Festival of Finance.
The British Museum and the London Transport Museum were targeted by activists yesterday afternoon. Both Museums take sponsorship money from serial human rights offenders BP and weapons manufacturer Thales. For more information on the protest click here
Brexit & China Is Brexit bad news for the City of London’s relationship with China? City Fix Or will the City find a way to remain a global Renminbi trading hub?
Food crisis Vs Financial crisis Food giants Mars and Cargill, and the World Wildlife Fund, are partnering with the US Defense Department to role play future food crises. Participants start off declaring that poverty alleviation is the key to reducing terrorism and war and…
Double U-Turn Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Health Select Committee, joined the Brexit camp for a few weeks and then left it a few days before the Sun came out for Brexit. The government had previously relied on her statements in…
Real Media’s latest video reveals how the UK’s proposed University Laws have been drafted to suit the People’s Bank of China — also known as the Chinese Central Bank — the world’s second largest financial institution. UCL Rent Strike I…
Real Media’s latest video reveals how the UK’s Proposed University Laws have been drafted to suit the People’s Bank of China — also known as the Chinese Central Bank — the world’s second largest largest money machine. UCL Rent Strike…
If the UK votes for Brexit, Dr Liam Fox, the disgraced ex-Defence Minister responsible for getting the UK involved in conflict in Libya and Syria before being sacked for Cronyism in 2011, could become Prime Minister. Is this really happening?…
Is an act still genuinely human once it’s been captured by Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, & the Pentagon? Or does the commodification of behaviour make things change? In the attention economy going viral signifies adding value This Texan Star…
David Cameron has just agreed to exclude the NHS from the controversial TTIP Trade Agreement. TTIP’s ISDS clause would have allowed Britain to be sued by rogue US Health Insurance giant United Health for not opening the NHS up quickly…
At Uni we were told Dr Strangelove was based on Von Neumann.
Grigori Perelman turned down $1million for solving the Poincare Conjecture
This is the real story behind the European Union. Christopher Booker was the first editor of Private Eye magazine and is now known as a Climate denying Eurosceptic Sunday Telegraph Columnist. The facts and analyses he serves up make it…
The influence Situationist Guy Debord has had on modern society — especially the advertising industry — is enormous. Debord himself would have hated this. His feelings about advertising were similar to those of Karl Marx on Capitalism. Debord first entered…
The influence Situationist Guy Debord has had on modern society — especially the advertising industry — is enormous. Debord himself would have hated this. His feelings about advertising were similar to those of Karl Marx on Capitalism. Debord first entered…
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.
Why should we continue to pay to protect Tony Blair from the vengeance of those he has wronged? In a recent response to a Freedom of Information Request the Home Office have refused to confirm or deny that they spend…
David Cameron has declared his ‘respect’ for Donald Trump — but most Britons haven’t forgotten the Bush/Blair relationship and fear another murderous Bromance. For the sake of context let it be known that neither the Bush family: nor religious Republican Speaker Paul…
In March 2015 George Osborne handed Manchester’s unelected interim Mayor full control of its £6bn a year health budget as part of his flagship Devolution for Cities policy. .@cpeedell George Osborne signs Manchester & NHS over to Vampire Capitalists just…
The perversity of politics is such that neither the Bush family: nor the religious right-wing fundamentalist Paul Ryan: are willing to endorse Donald Trump: but UK Prime Minister David Cameron says he deserves our respect!
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) monthly Quantitative Easing (QE) Programme prevents banks, pension funds, and insurance companies from accessing traditional low risk investments and forces them to take on more risk by buying lower quality investments. This has a serious knock-on effect: the more risk we take…
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.
