About politicians and courage: Courage is always missing in politicians. It is like saying basketball players aren’t normally short. It isn’t a useful attribute. To be morally courageous is to say something different, which reduces your chances of winning an election. Courage is in a funny way more common in an old-fashioned sort of enlightened… Read More »
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next? – Eric Hobsbawm Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association defends Swiss banking Wale Adebanwi on Arab view of non-Arabs and non-Muslims Is South Africa going the Zimbabwe way? The Sarkozy view of other world leaders Still on that Nigerian president’s health thing
… a socialist an insult? Why is the idea of redistribution such an anathema that an utterance of ‘spreading the wealth around’ is described as a gaffe, one to quickly run away from? Why does a country with so much income-disparity and rising inequality squirm at the idea of fairness? Why does Mr John McCain… Read More »