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ESG (environmental, social and governance) and CEI (corporate equality index) are smokescreens for corporations who do not give a damn about...

tl;dr Uh, no, because there weren't 500,000 extra retirements. The Bank of England is blaming inflation and our current recession on 50...

Dominic Cummings has a widely-cited blog post about the people he wants to hire and it has attracted a lot of attention. Even from Peter Wo...

Facebook took down a 1,000,000+ follower page belonging to high-protein / low fat Crossfit guys and gals. It was critical of government heal...

Taping phone calls at call centres is a good thing, right? Keeps everyone honest, yes? Not so much. Get the popcorn and read this tale. Th...

Recently I had to look at Student Loans. The UK version. I went to university when students got grants, so I don’t really grok Student Loans...

Moving on to TV and Movies, let’s talk about subscription services. The final post in this series is about that Prime and other subscription...

Dr Cathy O’Neill, aka mathbabe , a former Algebraic Geometer turned Wall Street Analyst turned Data Scientist / Activist, has a best-seller ...

The sociologist Ernest Gellner wrote a very good book called The Legitimation of Belief, and one of the many ideas in it that stuck with me ...

There was a recent study in the USA showing that 15% of people born between 1990-94 were still virgins, compared with 6% of those born betwe...

The Garden of Forking Paths is an idea introduced in a paper by Andrew Gelman and Eric Lokin that should be understood by everyone who uses...

This popped up in the daily press summary we get... Banks in Europe and Japan are rebelling against their central banks' negative int...

I went to see The Assassin at the Curzon Bloomsbury (or “The Renoir” if you’re old-school) the other Saturday. The 11:00 AM showing. In the ...

Two editorials in The Economist this weekend that roused my ire. One on the folly of raising minimum wages, and another on the need for subs...

A lot of SJW’s and PC columnists are making a noise about the fact that women are “under-represented” in the big tech companies. Those compa...

One of the things that Insight Analysts are expected to produce from the data are useful customer segments.  The conventional wisdom is thi...

I came across this while browsing Business Insider, which I do much less now than I used to. It's from a US Navy SEAL officer (Q: How do...

Mark Carney (for Martians: the new Governor of the Bank of England and a Canadian) says he won’t be making it worth taking your money out o...

There's a really neat presentation by the man with the coolest job in IT-town ("I'm Ira Hunt, I'm CTO of the CIA" and...

Peter Drucker says somewhere that the purpose of organisations is to allow ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. Many might add t...