First I owe you all an apology for having stopped writing here. I did so because I felt I was repeating myself and because I ran our of energy. What I regret most is that the lovely community of thoughtful people who had gathered here have gradually dispersed. It is my hope that some of […]
A Golem XIV-type podcast Read More »
For anyone interested in AI here is the film I was working on a year or so ago. I was hired to do the interviews. The film is directed by Leanne Pooley. The film is released by Universal and is available on various VoD and streaming services including iTunes and on Amazon Prime. The trailer
We need to talk about AI – Trailer and clips Read More »
For a great many of us in the industrialised countries, especially the relatively affluent and comfortable middle class, death and our mortality are something we have pushed to the margins of our lives. We are not used to the idea that death could come and get us. For many of us death is something we
Death – a small thought. Read More »
Surely it is time to stop pretending that in all of Africa there are only one or two cases of Coronavirus? Everything we now know about the virus makes this virtually impossible to believe. We know that despite alarm being expressed by other African nations Ethiopia has continued to keep open its air link to
Corona Virus – Africa update and peek into the near future Read More »
Like every issue of consequence, in our Age of Incomprehension, opinion about the truth concerning the Corona virus outbreak is divided. Either China is taking all prudent steps, the virus, while transmissible, has a low mortality rate and the West, with its travel bans, is over-reacting in a vaguely racist manner, or China has the
Corona Virus – The African connection. Read More »
When I look around at the state of public discourse in ‘the West’ what strikes me is that everyone says they want to have a reasoned and rational debate but say that the reason it doesn’t happen is because the ‘other side’ is irrational and so they can’t be debated with. The ‘other side’, their
How to prevent debate while claiming to be in favour of it. Read More »
There’s been a lot of Regime Change around in the last few years. One might even think it had become a nasty habit: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela. These are just the most recent. It was pointed out recently that if you count just those in South and Central America since the 50’s, it’s twelve.
Regime Change. Part One – How it’s done. Read More »
While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive. But what happens when – and surely it’s no longer if – but when Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest and only truly
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On Wednesday Feb 7th 2007 HSBC issued a profit warning. It was the first in its 142 year history. The bank told its share holders it would have to take an unprecedented charge of $10.5 billion because one of its units, its sub prime lender, was in deep trouble. And so began the sub prime
Debt is back but this time its corporate Read More »
A couple of days ago the always good Francis Coppola wrote a piece for Forbes entitled, The Banks That Helped Danske Bank Estonia Launder Russian Money In it she made the simple but essential point that while Danske Bank, through its Estonian branch, had laundered $234 billion, …Danske Bank Estonia couldn’t do this by itself. Much
Danske Bank – Who helped them Launder? Read More »
