Movements in the World and in the Mind
What a week for banking it was. After a period of speculations and public anger building up -would he-should he- RBS CEO Stephen Hester bowed to public pressure and waived his annual bonus. The deep fall from grace for Hester's predecessor Fred Goodwin came to some sort of conclusion in the form of stripping the... Continue Reading →
Despite an under-sea tunnel connecting mainland Britain to continental Europe and housing the biggest and culturally most diverse city in Europe, the UK still suffers from island mentality occasionally. You would've thought the days of splendid isolation as a foreign policy have long gone. Yet, Prime Minister Cameron went to an EU summit last week... Continue Reading →
I very much believe that countries that are in general considered democracies get the leaders they deserve. We, the people after all were clever or stupid enough (not) to vote for them. Yesterday I saw a very informative and entertaining documentary by Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye and reoccurring Mr. Witty at Have... Continue Reading →
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