I have just read a stunning commentary in the LA Times, not stunning because of its luminosity or brilliance, but stunning because I was rendered speechless by its utter dislocation with the realpolitik.
Those who know Max Boot are aware of his neoconservative contextual view of the world; a contributing editor to the odious Weekly Standard, [...]
Max Boot – Brain not included
Bittersweet Moment
Ah, the sweet smell of The Torygraph losing a high court libel appeal. As Louis Armstrong taught us, “What a Wonderful World”. The so called quality broadsheet, famous for its shoddy journalism and hopeless bias, has been beaten by none other than the bronzed self-publicist George Galloway! And therein lies the sting in the tail, [...]
Pain in Spain
The Spanish are up in arms. As the curiously inept-looking PM says, Spain has always been an uneasy union of Catalonia, Basque, Castille and other provincial regions, it´s never really been one happy nation – except when Fernando Alonso won the F1 drivers´championship.
Now the ruling “socialist” party, PSOE, in the pockets of the Catalan nationalists [...]
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tyger on the outcry about school and hospital league tables and targets
I understand totally the publics point about the misrepresentation and queering of statistics, but I must protest about the general hostility towards statistical analysis. We have a saying in business that goes What gets measured, gets done. It’s true to a point [...]
