WH Smith’s don’t exist in the U.S., and hence the magazine ecosystem is poor, considering the U.S. market is five or six times that of the UK. Same goes for bookshops. Even in New York there aren’t r… (View Post)

I have an operations capability, ostensibly efficiency-saving, but who - left unchecked - create superfluous process documentation and militate for additional hires. I keep them going because they do… (View Post)

Richard Murphy is the left wing Patrick Minford (he of “Economists for Brexit”). Both are total nutters, essentially the David Ickes of the economics profession. (View Post)

I personally prefer to let people discuss whatever they want, even “the thing”. I note the ban on that remains. Leon is a suis generis problem. Unless he is given strict parameters he is quite capabl… (View Post)

The problem with banning AI talk is that it’s like banning atomic bomb chat in 1945, or dreadnought discussions in 1910. However perhaps we need a way to discourage the more technical stuff. (View Post)