Thanks to Jack Roberts of Big Idea and the Herald Sun for pointing out that Saint Bob Geldof charged $100,000 to speak in Australia recently about ‘the tragedy of world famine.’ Guests weren’t told that it was a paid gig, by no means the first, for Geldof, friend of the man who has done a [...]
Category Archives: Environment
The Great Train Robbers
November 24, 2008 – 11:18 am
The iniquity of the UK train operators’ stranglehold on a captive traveller since the botched 1993 privatisation, when a patchwork of mini-monopolies replaced the monolithic British Rail is well-documented. The network itself – tracks, stations, signals, overhead electric cables and all the costly stuff needed to run a railway – collapsed accordingly and was taken [...]
Human capital is only useful if you don't break the bank
November 16, 2008 – 11:30 pm
The mantra of the Third Way seems to be about “capabilities”. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband pontificated in The New Statesman that this it is about creating an “I can” society. But what exactly is the point of all this? Coming from a Development background, it took me a while to realise that all politics, [...]
It does not have to be that way
November 4, 2008 – 10:49 am
THUS aims to consolidate fresh thinking about life-changing issues, bridge the truth gap left by today’s political and business coverage and add fact-based appraisal of the best forward thinking from a host of informed sources. It will do so with good humour, optimism and empathy. You should not need a PhD to understand or enjoy [...]