by Tom | May 14, 2010 | Business
What Volcker thinks has Peston looking humble in front of the great man. Interesting factoid (Peston’s commentary) from the article: mortgages securitised into bonds are the biggest part of the biggest capital market in the world (the US bond market); and 90% of...
by Tom | May 8, 2010 | Asides
I'm at La Fromagerie (Highbury) (30 Highbury Park, Highbury). http://4sq.com/cWj0Vt #
by Tom | May 8, 2010 | Asides
RT: @jwatson1: Tories spent 5 years moaning about Lab governing with 35.3% of vote. 36% and immediately they demand keys to No. 10. #ge2010 # I'm at Patara (7 Maddox St, London). http://4sq.com/b6fK2I # I'm at Parolles Road (37-63 Parolles Rd, Islington)....
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Government
I think that is what most people expect, no?No party to have overall majority.Conservative party to have overall majority
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Business, Tech
How cool to be able to design your house on a computer and then press enter to have it created in sandstone at full size. I’ll say it again: 3D printing will be disruptive to a vast range of industries and I’m not sure many have seen it coming.
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Business, Government
This really is rethinking the company. To hell with job security. IT giant IBM told Personnel Today that the firm’s global workforce of 399,000 permanent employees could reduce to 100,000 by 2017, the date by which the firm is due to complete its HR...
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Business, Tech
I’m glad that we are finding other approaches to combat the copyright lobbyists. I guess it is slightly left-field to lump schools and Google together, but you can see that there is a grain of truth there. In summary: fair use-dependent organisations contribute...
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Government
Great speech by Brown a few days ago. Just imagine if he had combined this sort of barnstorming with an election in 2007. Gordon Brown’s speech to Citizens UK
by Tom | May 6, 2010 | Personal
While dropping off our postal votes by hand this morning didn’t quite have the zing of putting the x in the box on the day, it did confuse everyone at the polling station. I say there is nothing wrong with taking your time to evaluate the candidates up to the...
by Tom | May 5, 2010 | Government, Reading
Your final election reading before choosing tomorrow:FiveThirtyEight has some great articles, including their findings that a hung parliament could be good for Cameron if he just goes for it.Strong article from Johann Hari pointing towards the lack of change in the...
