A dignified apology
I just came across this largely trivial cultural skirmish. Obama said "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the...
Profundification – a trend of our times: Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNTk29zXl4A OK so you all kind of know this, but I'm going to go out on a limb and just put it out there as...
Wrapping up 2008: the year of the first blogged financial crisis
I wrote this column for the Fin at the end of the year only to discover that I was on leave. Anyway, it was put...
The Theory of Primate Sentiments: Part Two
The story so far. Robin Dunbar is arguing that language developed amongst apes as something that could replace grooming in facilitating larger social groups than...
The Theory of Primate Sentiments: Part One.
I've just finished reading a book entitled "Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language" (Amazon link - but no pages to view) by Robin Dunbar...
A conservative liberal social democrat
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics...