A few years ago Al Gore turned his slide show into a movie and subsequently received an Oscar. The debate about climate change got into full swing, and then along came the climate change deniers and the population of the world got terribly confused. Suddenly they didn't know what to believe. And when the human [...]
Some good friends came to stay over the weekend just past. They brought with them a couple who are here on holiday from a Eurozone country. Their names should remain anonymous for the purposes of this story. The couple are both retired now. We got talking about his work in the police force of said [...]
Yesterday marked the 1st anniversary of Robyn and I moving from Paddington in Sydney to Berry on the South Coast of NSW. It has been great to get away from the city, particularly at a time when our state government seem so intent on utterly screwing the place up. I think that they have the [...]
I was reading Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's column in the Telegraph (the UK paper, not the Australian one) this morning. It brought home to me how fortunate we, who live in Australia, are. But it also underlines how blase we are too. Most people in Australia have no idea of the potential of the Madoff scam in [...]
There is a growing demand for early warning systems in business. Everyone is getting into the prediction business. The reason is pretty simple – the predictable certainty has gone out of almost everything. Think about it. In the UK supermarket chains are starting to build “Plan B” strategies because they think that their suppliers have [...]