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 when it breaks? Fix it myself / Throw it away This is a Samsung Press Release from […]

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”. Student Experience and happiness are code words for ‘utility’ — an imaginary (and subjective) system for […]

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 book called Privatising the World, campaigners are understandably worried. As of 2015 his wife Isabel […]

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 that the US private sector can provide the technology we need to feed the world. […]

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 enough to foreign competition. This amendment to TTIP was arrived at due to an unholy […]

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 hard for anyone to want to remain in the EU.

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 such reports are being made against the Conservatives. Will this irrelevant argument affect the outcome […]

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 which Vitalik Buterin talks about Ethereum on Singularity. I had just heard about Ethereum at […]

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 exclusion, I don’t know if I will ever be able to explain how I managed to […]

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 running out of money is as likely as us running out of miles Whilst this […]

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 young Eastern European carer, enters their tiny world the results are as disruptive as they […]

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 Mrs Thatcher’s Chief Strategy in the 80’s. Despite repeatedly voting for cuts to disability benefit Crabb has […]

  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 & the Scientist. Like the child in the Emperor’s New Clothes & Shakespeare’s Fool, Trump […]

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 March 2011. Campaigners are asking how he can remain patron of the charity while taking […]

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 he does what he can to help people.