Don’t worry, be happy

The latest reporting offence comes from BBC… that venerable institution of quality journalism. If it is as riven with trendy causes and zeitgeist journalism as CBC it is hard to tell from a distance but generally it seems to value quality and accuracy rather than...

Let Greece go

A different view on Greek debt woes I nternationally known investor and author James Rogers says the melodrama over the Greek debt should stop and that bankruptcy isn’t the worst option. In fact, he muses that it might be the only way forward. And anyway, the...

Getting off the poor

Foreign aid overhaul in the UK Last week the new British government said that despite being almost completely broke, it wasn’t going to balance its books on the backs of the poor. In his first major speech International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell...