The latest target of the PC police - Gilbert & Sullivan.
"Controversy as Chester Zoo opens 'Wrexham Scally Enclosure'". (I should point out that Homo Wrexhamius Scalliensis Chavus is pretty much confined to the southern part of Wrexham, not the nice bit where I’m from…)
Why Gandhi is such an asshole in Civilisation.
The Curious Case of the (Medieval) Weapon that Didn't Exist
Why you can't just have more quantitative easing to get rid of the national debt.
This is not a 512gb microSD card.
The worst football kits of all time. They’re all bad, but Colorado, seriously…?
This month's best headline is from an astronomy website.
"A lousy, stupid, no good, bad, law is being proposed."
Star Wars Episode IV in a single image. (OK, it’s a very big image, but still…)
Minimalist, anonymous rooms are probably not a good place to do teamwork.
"We all owe a significant debt to Richard Murphy." No, really.
I'm an only child, so I can't really relate to this. Nevertheless I thought it was a sweet film about growing up being “Player Two”.
Woman accidentally joins search party looking for herself.
Today's most widely misinterpreted piece of economics, from the IMF. There are two arguments put forward in the paper. The first is that there are risks associated with capital account liberalisation (allowing money into and out of the country with less regulation). The second is that although high public debt is bad for growth and welfare, for countries with excellent records of debt repayment, like the US, the UK and Germany, a “credible medium-term fiscal consolidation” makes more sense than a “fiscal noose today”. In other words, slowly bringing down debt as a percentage of GDP, not slashing everything to balance the budget as soon as possible. Now that’s pretty much what the UK’s current fiscal policy is. Still I suppose “IMF economists broadly agree with George Osborne” isn’t quite as good a headline as “You’re witnessing the death of neoliberalism – from within”. Seriously, this is a paper that says “There is much to cheer in the neoliberal agenda. The expansion of global trade has rescued millions from abject poverty. Foreign direct investment has often been a way to transfer technology and know-how to developing economies. Privatization of state-owned enterprises has in many instances led to more efficient provision of services and lowered the fiscal burden on governments”… and Facebook (and one of our less reputable newspapers) is full of idiots claiming that “we are witnessing the death of neoliberalism”.
