Will Brexit threaten the City of London’s status as a global financial hub? As the smoke clears on the vote to leave the EU, it’s becoming ever clearer that the answer is no, says Dominic Elliott. Sure, the UK’s financial sector may well have to cope with extra regulation, higher costs and greater capital requirements. …
The Guardian recently ran an article by Paul Mason that illustrates how class resentment thrives in Britain. Mason wrote that “brown shoes can ruin a career in investment banking, because they betray a lack of “sheen”, according to a Social Mobility Commission report. “Little wonder” that investment banking “suffers from groupthink on a scale that …
“What is true, and what isn’t? That question is beginning to lose its relevance in American politics For some years now, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and other members of the conservative infotainment complex have relentlessly poured scorn on everything reported by the “mainstream media”, and thereby successfully “wrecked the idea of objective, knowable fact”. Even …
Yesterday I mentioned free will. One of the regular readers of this blog asked me the other day what I thought about this subject. I am sticking my neck out in the hope that someone will produce some stunning and persuasive reason why I am wrong. And if they do, I will promptly sink into …
“Could you be living inside a simulation created by a more advanced intelligence? Where does your unerring belief that you are not come from? The short answer is you don’t. Consider this: with every passing moment, we get closer to creating intelligent machines, maybe even conscious ones. If we can do this, couldn’t someone – …
