The other day I saw a rather alarming report produced by MoneyWeek magazine, entitled The End of Britain, predicting an imminent financial apocalypse. The claim was simple: over the past few decades the level of debt in the UK (private, corporate and government) had ballooned; that the only reason that this appeared sustainable was that interest rates were unusually low at the moment; and that as soon as they rose it would be curtains for Britain.
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Posts Tagged ‘story’
The Languages of Pao
Posted in books, tagged book, culture, management, story on 31/05/2013| 2 Comments »
I intermittently attend a “science and literature” reading group. The last thing I read for the group was “The Languages of Pao”, by Jack Vance. Actually, we only read the first nine chapters.
I’m not really much of a science fiction fan—I’m not much of a novel-reader in general—and to start with the book was a bit of a grind. But once the story got going I found it quite intriguing: perhaps it had some sort of personal resonance.
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Taxi ride
Posted in out and about, tagged culture, Florida, gun, story, taxi on 21/12/2012| Leave a Comment »
I have been to the America twice in my life. The first time was when I was about 11, visiting a family who had been neighbours when they were living in England, but had moved back to the US; to Connecticut, as it happens. The second time was much more recently.
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