Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” (The essential Groucho)
Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Spaniards Fight Banks Over Home Evictions
There is a mini-war being fought on Spanish doorsteps, between members of the public who can no longer afford to pay their mortgages and the banks who are threatening to…
China closes Tibet to tourists
Chinese authorities have closed Tibet to foreign visitors, travel agents said Wednesday, just 10 days after two Tibetans set themselves on fire in the troubled region. The move comes at…
‘End of the world as we know it’: Kaspersky warns of cyber-terror apocalypse
After his eponymously-named lab discovered Flame, “the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed,” Eugene Kaspersky believes that the evolving threat of “cyber terrorism” could spell the end of life on…
Barclays bankers among 20 people charged with £198m ‘tax fraud’ in Italy
Milan judge orders top Italian banker Alessandro Profumo and 19 others to go on trial. Case centres on suspected tax fraud in 2007 and 2008 at Unicredit, arising from the…
Osborne, the new Dickensian Uriah Heep?
Uriah Heep Character Analysis Uriah Heep is not a person; he’s an evil machine. He’s like a really slow-acting version of the Terminator, bent on the destruction of anyone and…
