07-01 President Trump
By John BullochIf President Trump isn’t careful he’s going to lose the evangelical vote. He needs professional advice. Something like this. Tell the evangelicals that you were just taking Stormy Daniels to the Lord. Because each time you had sex with her she said, “Oh my God. Oh my God.”Because I spent 25 years of…
07-03 Populism
By John BullochI was a populist. Then I became an elite.Here is a story that will help you understand just what they mean when President Trump is called a populist of the right and Bernie Sanders a populist of the left. Pretty confusing subject. There are so many different forms of populism.In a former life…
07-04 Amazon
By Peter BullochIf you’ve never tried Marmite on your toast, tread carefully. With a consistency of axle grease and hints of toe jam, you will, as their slogan goes, either “love it or hate it”. My wife and I love it but I regularly bitch at the cost of the little jars which barely last…
07-05 Climate Change
By John BullochIn 1977 we would call it climate, not climate change. But visiting an official in Bangkok I found the streets flooded and had to take off my socks and shoes and roll up my trousers to cross the street and move to higher ground.Today, they are predicting that Bangkok will be under water…
07-06 Internet of Things
By Peter BullochWhat exactly are these “Things”? Well, we can start with anything that starts with “smart”, like your smart phone or smart watch but of course the IoT includes any device that is “connected” to the web like home thermostats, security devices and pacemakers.If fact there is a serious group of Silicon Valley Engineers…
07-07 Demographics
By John BullochSexy. Not the right word. Scary. That’s better. I am talking about demographics. About population changes taking place that have massive implications.It seems that all my life we have been talking about the “baby boom”, the explosive population growth that followed WW2. Initially, we were talking about the sale of diapers, then children’s…
07-08 Bitcoin
By Peter BullochDoes anyone remember when, some years back, at the peak of his career, earning two million dollars an episode, Charlie Sheen had a personal, professional and public meltdown? Captivating, like watching a massive car crash.How about the recent explosion in the value of bitcoin? From modest beginnings its value soared to $20,000 per…
07-09 China
By John BullochThe bold headlines in both the Chinese and English newspapers in Beijing, in October 1985, were four inches deep. “Factories Must Sell Their Production.” It signalled a move by the Communist government that they wanted China to become a more market-oriented economy. We had just come from Shanghai and visited a factory where…
07-10 AI
By Peter BullochArtificial Intelligence is becoming the most significant development of the past century. And if we do not pay heed to warnings from Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and their ilk, this might be our last development.In the movie ‘I, Robot’, a cop played by Will Smith hates robots. After a collision which…