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The Israeli concerns over Iranian nuclear capabilities and their threats of pre-emptive military action against Iranian facilities were highlighted in a recent speech given by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN HQ in New York recently. Netanyahu’s speech was supported with his diagram of a bomb – in the style of an animated cartoon […]

Comedians love politicians as cannon fodder on their show… so stick to your own show Dave and be a leader instead! The Mayor of London, Boris Johnston, got away with being himself on the David Letterman Show before the London Olympic Games – although he had to bear a witty jibe about “when did you

… outperform the Olympic athletes with superior records in some of the events because medical technology will have progressed sufficiently that pioneering technology today of stem-cell research, nanotechnology and synthetic biology will have become common medical practise. I am unable recall the Paralympics from the early 1980s and the artificial limbs in use then to

The unfinished symphony – the dance of death In May I wrote about some of the problems currently threatening the world’s economy or peace using a Billy Joel song track as a background reference. However an addition to that should be the number of territorial disputes lurking around particularly in Asia usually involving China with

India has a a space programme which includes a Mars mission. It has Bollywood, Billionaires and global industries but also 43% of the country below the poverty line and then it’s just had the largest blackout ever.

On day 5 Team GB struck gold with the ladies coxless pairs taking gold by clear water- well done indeed- and tour de force Bradley Wiggins wins again too. Earlier the British men’s gymnastic team earned a first ever podium place with bronze. More to come hopefully and this is a time for London to

In March I wrote about the High Priest’s of finance just not getting what’s happened within their industry-see the 1st of March blog. Now 4 months later and as recent events at Barclays with the LIBOR rigging scandal or RBS shambles with a widespread payment systems failure highlight, with the ensuing denials and apologies from

Political events are driving economic ones with investors remaining concerned about a number of factors all of which have the potential to upset market sentiment and economic confidence. (I have written about these concerns before- see blogs of May 30th – EU superstate or EU in a state? Germany has a dilemma… and May 15th

Don’t confuse pay and performance with value. Shareholders as owners need to know the difference and then hire managers for what the company needs and should pay going forward. The CEO and one of the entrepreneurial founders of WPP, the UK based global advertising agency Sir Martin Sorrell robustly defended his remuneration in the FT 

Read my latest News and Views page on the worst rebound ever from another Euro zone fix.