by Tom | Jul 7, 2010 | Government, Science
I’m glad that the whole antioxidant / happy bacteria / green tea industries are being not-so-gently proscribed by the EU. If the directive has been in preparation since 2006 and the more clinical trials needed take three years, then why haven’t they done...
by Tom | Jul 1, 2010 | Business, Reading
Cracking stuff (apart from “crucibles of change”, that is) from McK on five major drivers of global change for businesses and individuals. Lots to digest and redigest there.
by Tom | Jun 30, 2010 | Business
McK suggests that corporates make China their corporate second home. Not for labour arbitrage, but because the hundreds of millions of people being brought into the working and spending populations dwarf the workforce in the developed world (e.g. only 150m in the...
by Tom | Jun 29, 2010 | Personal
I’m not sure who I want to win, but it is a day of upsets at Wimbledon, and the crowd seems to be behind the underdog…
by Tom | Jun 27, 2010 | Personal
Just back from Billy Budd at Glyndebourne. Brilliant. The sequence where they are preparing to chase down a French ship put Master and Commander into the shade. Not bad comparison between an opera and a Hollywood film. Last night so you’ll have to watch the DVD...
