Continued from last week So what disturbed Allcock's stately scam ship as it sailed serenely through the market?  The first issue arose...

The scene : a small, bare office on an industrial estate near Beijing Capital International airport.  Sitting nervously on a metal chair, nu...

Sorry, but the Macbeth idiom is irresistible.  Presumably, after a full week of letting it be understood that any move by Burnham would be s...

Pic:  Daily Telegraph There won't be many readers who have heard of James Allcock (died at the age of 90, obit here , which you should m...

At the weekend I read this short piece, entitled : "Our Impossibly Small-souled President" The author, one Jeffrey Blehar, is no g...

In the previous post I suggested:  ... the Venezuela adventure is ... forcing Putin to eat more shit as he is lamely reduced to asking that ...

Last year's Predictions compo invited short essays on Ukraine.  I largely ducked this one but there was a very decent effort by Caesar ...

OK, so for 2026 we'll keep it easy ... 1.  FIFA World Cup:  winning team;  golden boots winner(s) ;  will Wales / N.Ireland / Rep. Irela...

This one was probably inviting too many qualitative answers for easy adjudication, but here goes.  First, the factual aspects : 1. Name of ...

Last year I noted the Top Six locations for C@W hits, as follows (in descending order): Hong Kong / China / USA / Singapore / UK / Norway 20...

Not only do human beings have a marked propensity to believe in perpetual motion machines, nuclear fusion, price forecasts and sure-fire be...

There's something very deep in human psychology that encourages people to believe in magic swords, universal elixirs, price forecasts, p...

Canary Wharf: cornerstone  Following on from the post about the 'predictions market' & how various attempts to make financial m...

As fans of open markets, generally speaking, what do we make of the soi-disant "predictions market"? in which the firm Kalshi has ...

Part 1 was a qualitative summary of what the SZC deal looks like.  It isn't difficult to find more exact details - Mr W has provided sev...

Spoiler alert: nobody knows ; and it's not clear anyone cares who has agency in the matter[1].  We've written about aspects of this ...

First things first: Jim wins the compo for most correct guesse s at Budget content - by a decent margin, too.  Well done that man.  A (very...

As we await the Budget: our learned visitor Mr Wendland asked for a post on SZC and its subsidy regim e. I've done the reading, sir, and...

If taken at face value, the 28-point plan is clever[1].  In my assessment there's only one clause that, pragmatically speaking, should g...

Has any politician from any parliamentary party - I include Reform - spoken so plainly and indeed bluntly in Parliament on the topic of ille...