(1) Brief Book Review The Turing Guide   - 33 contributing authors (Oxford, 546 pp) Alan Turing was one of the foremost geniuses of th...

Just when you thought that everyone and everything had to big up their 'green' credentials, when Jeremy Clarkson was beyond the pale...

A month of Sundaes Back in the mists of time, when the snowflake generation's parents were children themselves, a transformat...

Well alright, au fond it's May's weakness that is causing mayhem - but the form it seems to be taking just now is Gove's increa...

OK, we all know what's going on here : every company on the planet from Microsoft downwards is trying to find ways of setting up rel...

The Marxist Antonio Gramsci famously advocated advancing the revolution by undertaking a 'long march through the institutions'.  The...

Well, OK probably the weather - but trains run it a close second. This past week something quite significant happened: the government scra...

Real non-story in the FT today. Under their usual remoaning headline of course. With PPI coming to an end there is an industry of amb...

BBC reveal the salaries of their top talent. To inevitable controversy. A spokesperson for the BBc contacted C@W to explain. ...

You gotta laugh at all the gnashing of teeth as the City gears up to change the rules for "sovereign-owned" flotations - manifest...

Enough of meaty topics this week! Since I started blogging, I have always had time for Tim Montgomerie - perhaps this is related to him ma...

We warned on here many, many years ago that the policy prescriptions coming out of the Great Recession would induce a Japan like coma on the...

OK, so I am in Ireland just now, working (as ever) on an energy project, which requires me to grapple with the electricity market rules that...

  Philip Hammond is still advocating the very slow, almost glacial exit of the UK from the EU. A google search reveals that Spreadsheet P...

The excellent BTL comments around here over the past few days indicate that C@W readers are looking over the rim of the abyss and shrewdly i...

Just as the EU was getting all excited about besting the UK, reality is intervening once more to show its utter failure as an institution. ...

Why do I keep meeting people who are spouting commie nonsense. Only today I have met some senior executives who should know better. They are...

The complexities of the internal politics of OPEC leave me reeling, but they won't get any less fraught with this as the backdrop. ...

..very unpopular this austerity lark, so it is to be binned for a small splurge of spending instead.  Look at the numbers though -...