The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I recently watched Empire of Dust, the 2011 documentary about Chinese development in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Perhaps you, like m...

As part of my ongoing attempts to join the illustrious brotherhood of the Froude Society , I’ve been reading ‘ The Bow of Ulysses ’, by Jame...

Discontinuities are interesting things. When small differences in inputs result in large differences in outputs, it can sometimes give hints...

Last time I tackled the question of exit, we talked about the feasibility of secession , and how I thought that scenario would play out (sh...

So, we're about at the halfway point since I made the following prediction , half in jest, as my version of the Julian Simon bet : Sho...

"And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It i...

"Libya". So, we want to topple a nasty secular dictator we know, who is locked in a struggle with Al Qaeda-linked terrorist ...

So the Military in Egypt decided they'd had enough of the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood government and removed them in a co...

In Egypt, a Dutch female reporter who was reporting on demonstrations in Tahrir Square  was savagely raped . Apparently she was an intern co...

Quote of the day, from AL, referencing the case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympian accused of shooting his girlfriend : I&...

I think at this stage in history, there’s not really much question that foreign aid has been a colossal failure. Shovelling money and goods ...