Archive for June, 2008
Food for thought
June 3rd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
On the day that sees the opening in Rome of a special summit organised by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), some compelling facts on food.
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I have no idea
June 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
This lunchtime, I was at the Treasury – at the invitation of my half-brother who is an official there – to hear a lecture by Professor Frank Trentmann. He was speaking about his latest book which is called “Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain”. The Treasury officials there seemed to […]
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“The Gods That Failed”
June 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
This is the title of a forthcoming book and a web site to promote discussion on its themes. The book is by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson and the gods are globalisation, communication, liberalisation, privatisation, competition, financialisation, speculation, recklessness, greed, arrogance, oligarchy and excess. The central argument of the book is that the world’s bankers […]
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The American presidential election (39)
June 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
An American contact has drawn my attention this article which was recently in the “Washington Post” and elsewhere. The piece makes comparisons between the presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter in 1976 and that of Barack Obama in 2008. It makes the point that both were complete outsiders when they started their presidential bids and wonders […]
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