Economists, Like Royal Children, Are Not Punished

Viewed From A Distance, Or Through The Eye Of The All-knowing Ceo Of The Universe, The Crash Of 2008 Followed The Usual Pattern. A Long-lived Boom Driven By Cheap Credit, Going Back As Far As 1982 (though Subject To Interruptions In The Mid-1980s And 1990s, And In 2001), Came To Grief Because Of A Rise In The Cost Of Borrowing Money.

The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West - Which Is Political Economy - Is In The Doghouse. Having Failed To Notice Atmospheric Pollution, The Economists Then Frightened Themselves With The Sort Of Financial Crisis They Said They Had Abolished.

There Are About 15 Million Muslims In The Eu. They Face Ignorance, Insult And Even Persecution. They Cannot Be Wished Away. To Impose Enlightenment Freedoms Is Self-defeating. Anyway, The Muslims Have Their Own Enlightenment.

We Read Too Much Shakespeare At School, And View Our Parliamentary Politics As Dynastic Drama, In Which An Impatient Crown Prince Frets At His Long Subordination And Begins To Scheme For The Throne He Knows He Merits, Was Promised And Has Earned.

Any New Financial Order For The World Must Tackle The Three Chief Challenges Of Our Age.