Saturday Ramble: Googlers final curtain, Cameron’s nemesis, Baby Boomers
Google founders, Larry Page and Serge Brin, are both in the wars healthwise. Page has revealed that he has a nerve disease that has partially paralysed his vocal cords, while Brin has announced he...
View ArticleSaturday Ramble: Cameron’s task at the Tory Conference
Politicians have a tendency to parade policy ideas carefully crafted to attract specific groups of voters. The end result usually resembles a chaotic jigsaw puzzle with little overall coherence....
View ArticlePolitical Commentary: China will despise us for being supplicants
The political Left is stuffed with shibboleths, high-minded principles and ideologies. Every potential decision is examined for its conformity with a tangle of intellectual notions supposedly essential...
View ArticleIs David Cameron religious?
This is a question often asked since Dave became Prime Minister. Bloomberg seems to have come up with the answer: a discreet “yes”. Like all middle-class Englishmen he has been shaped by his education...
View ArticleSaturday Ramble: Scotland on the brink
I once lived in Edinburgh for two years, finally driven back south by sub-zero temperatures and bitter winds off the North Sea. A common tale, I suspect. Despite an insatiable taste for John Buchan...
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