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002. Free trade and appropriate culture (1 July 03)
003. The participatory/initiatory middle-class (2 July 03)
004. A disappointing decade (3 July 03)
005. Keep tax simple, stupid (3 July 03)
006. The ultimate status goods (4 July 03)
007. A PC is/is not a TV (5 July 03)
008. Currency -- a representation of sex and status (6 July 03)
009. A cottage in the country (7 July 03)
010. The pleasure seekers (7 July 03)
011. No status goods in sight (7 July 03)
012. Where's our leisure time? (7 July 03
013. Bizarre examples (7 July 03)
014. A luxury yacht is not quite a status good (12 July 03)
015. A cell phone is certainly a status good (13 July 03)
016. Status jobs are powerful, too (13 July 03)
018. Back to the earth (14 July 03)
019. Koestler's "The Act of Creation" (15 July 03)
020. Ringing the tocsin for America (15 July 03)
021. A status good par excellence (16 July 03)
022. How does China develop so fast? (17 July 03)
023. Aristotle's non-dilemma (20 July 03)
024. The Big Correction (21 July 03)
026. The movement of jobs (22 July 03)
028. More on movement of jobs (23 July 03)
029. Belongingness is important, too! (23 July 03)
030. A schismatic society? (24 July 03)
031. Skills schism in England (24 July 03)
032. False status can be transient (24 July 03)
033. In-group, out-group (25 July 03)
034. A vote of no confidence (26 July 03)
035. My grandfather was proud to pay income tax (26 July 03)
036. The American cul-de-sac (27 July 03)
037. Waiting for replacement organs (30 July 03)
038. The Pharoah Syndrome (31 July 03)
039. The strike of the Heathrow girls (31 July 03)
041. Death of western society as we know it (2 August 03)
042. Hitherto, a Ricardian free trader (3 August 03)
043. God's diplomacy (5 August 03)
044. The Wizard of Oz problem (6 August 03)
045. Leisure time being squeezed (6 August 03)
046. Another term is needed (6 August 03)
047. The seven governances of man (7 August 03)
048. Throwing out the currency baby with the bathwater (8 August 03)
049. The new mandarins (9 August 03)
050. Why leisure time is squeezed (9 August 03)
051. Don't blame capitalism, though (10 August 03)
052. Fons est animi ianua (10 August 03)
053. Perspiring already (11 August 03)
054. Community as the next Status Good? (12 August 03)
055. More on Kyoto (12 August 03)
056. Community is already being packaged (12 August 03)
058. The Igla is another nail in the coffin of the nation-state (13 August 03)
059. The young may be eschewing conventional economics (13 August 03)
061. There really is a mystery (15 August 03
062. WPDs, not WMDs (16 August 03)
063. Gadgets are not sufficient (16 August 03)
064. The setting of targets (17 August 03
066. Celebrating status (18 August 03)
068. Solution for Iraq (21 August 03)
069. Competition, cooperation and trust (21 August 03)
070. One world language (22 August 03)
071. Tsinghua University, Beijing (23 August 03)
072. Self-help in China (23 August 03)
073. When will America invade Saudi Arabia? (24 August 03)
074. Another theory of homosexuality (25 August 03)
075. Benjamin, the softie baboon (25 August 03)
076. No end to human evolution (25 August 03)
077. Two predominant trends (26 August 03)
078. Intelligence divide going global (26 August 03)
079. Human nature is a sandwich (27 August 03)
080. The origin and destiny of religion (28 August 03)
081. Will Bush become a Shia Moslem? (29 August 03)
082. Some facts about the hydrogen economy (3 September 03)
083. Law of diminishing happiness (7 September 03)
084. Solar power -- but not yet (7 September 03)
085. The economic decline of western Europe (8 September 03)
087. Tomorrow's jobs solution (10 September 03)
088. America is being humiliated in Iraq (10 September 03)
089. The clashing of cultures? (11 September 03)
090. Survival of the brightest (12 September 03)
092. O Lord, save me from sinning (13 September 03)
093. Things are getting sticky, America-wise (14 September 03)
094. Miracles are not needed (16 September 03)
095. The mitotic age (18 September 03)
096. Fairness -- a foundation of evolutionary economics (18 September 03)
097. Survival of the digitally fittest (19 September 03)
098. Those capuchin monkeys again! (20 September 03)
099. The looming dilemma of the welfare state (21 September 03)
100. Landslide in the West; ascendancy of the East (22 September 03)
101. Today, young swallows were gathering (22 September 03)
102. The other side of the renminbi (23 September 03)
103. Western society is collapsing (24 September 03)
104. Work-life balance -- again! (25 September 03)
105. Dumbed-down state education is the real threat (27 September 03)
106. IQ and economic performance (30 September 03)
107. Trust -- the very basis of economics (1 October 03)
108. China is biding its time (2 October 03)
109. Eugenics is inevitable (3 October 03)
110. How to be happy (4 October 03)
111. Unlimited desires -- and inevitable inflation (5 October 03)
112. The mind of an entrepreneur (5 October 03)
113. A much wider war is possible (6 October 03)
114. The democratic paradox that is China (7 October 03)
115. Lumps of unskilled labour (8 October 03)
116. A truce in the Nature versus Nurture argument (9 October 03)
117. Post-dogwalk Iraqi speculations (10 October 03)
118. Death by bureaucratic asphyxiation (11 October 03)
119. The new solar phase of mankind's survival system (12 October 03)
120. Over-regulation in France (13 October 03)
121. Over-regulation in Germany (14 October 03)
122. Limits to the out-sourcing of jobs (15 October 03)
123. Know-how economies (16 October 03)
124. Our souped-up frontal lobe genes (17 October 03)
125. Future conflicts over oil (18 October 03)
126. Homosexuality as a symptom of a highly-stressed society (19 October 03)
127. The first oil shock (19 October 03)
128. Anti-immigration feeling grows in Europe (20 October 03)
129. Which came first: meat-eating, brains or tools? (21 October 03)
130. A case study of one particular economic morass (22 October 03)
131. An utterly different post-industrial society (22 October 03)
132. Music from stalactites (23 October 03)
133. Catching up at last (24 October 03)
134. Routine viciousness and cannibalism (25 October 03)
135. Wolfowitch will appreciate the irony (26 October 03)
136. Our frontal lobes prefer Coke (26 October 03)
137. Gandhi's racism (27 October 03)
138. Our mysterious universe (28 October 03)
139. An immoral solution for Iraq (28 October 03)
140. The big suicide note (29 October 03)
141. A major brand suspires (29 October 03)
142. A double Iraqi oil whammy (29 October 03)
143. Bootstrap education (29 October 03)
144. Bootstrap development (29 October 03)
145. Vital decisions for Islamic countries (29 October 03)
146. The reason for our economic systems (30 October 03)
147. A critique of Stephen Roach (31 October 03)
148. The economics of poppydom (1 November 03)
149. Crystal ball gazing on Saudi Arabia (2 November 03)
150. The pen ... being mightier than the sword .... (3 November 03)
151. Will you forgive me, Kirsty? (4 November 03)
152. Teleworking -- or, a fortune awaits a house-builder (5 November 03)
153. Microskills and macroskills (7 November 03)
154. Bush's preliminary steps to withdrawal? (7 November 03)
155. The embellishment effect of the frontal lobes (8 November 03)
156. More on Gandhi's 'racism' (8 November 03)
157. The heat problem of Siberia (9 November 03)
158. The heat problem of Siberia II (10 November 03)
159. Something big in the offing in Iraq? (11 November 03)
160. Status ranking is ubiquitous -- particularly in the civil service (12 November 03)
161. Bad news hastens Bush towards an exit strategy from Iraq (13 November 03)
162. The fallacy of democracy (14 November 03)
163. Government is intra-cultural; economics is inter-cultural (14 November 03)
164. The first of the oil wars (15 November 03)
165. The first transnational-nation (16 November 03)
166. Bush and Blair diving into deficit (17 November 03)
167. A glimpse of medieval Hangzhou and the Song civilisation (17 November 03)
168. Whoops! I meant the second of the oil wars (17 November 03)
169. Nanny knows best -- even in the bedroom (18 November 03)
170. Bush's impossible problem of same-sex marriage (19 November 03)
171. The 'after-hours' scandal (19 November 03)
172. The terrorist attacks in Istanbul (20 November 03)
173. The HSBC will add its voice now (20 November 03)
174. No more children, otherwise (21 November 03)
175. The rise (and fall?) of fundamentalism (22 November 03)
176. The new Great Game (23 November 03)
177. And now let us praise Yelena Trebugova (24 November 03)
178. Status goods and positional goods (25 November 03)
179. The last shall be first? (25 November 03)
180. Two spanners in the three-state solution for Iraq (25 November 03)
181. From Russia with sadness (25 November 03)
182. Downshifting to a better work-life balance (26 November 03)
183. Jack Straw's visit to Iraq (27 November 03)
184. And now let us praise Mansour Al-Nogaidan (28 November 03)
185. The Death of a Customer (28 November 03)
186. Labour's monumental mistake in educational policies (28 November 03)
187. The first transnational nation revisited (28 November 03)
188. Blair's curious illnesses (29 November 03)
189. Happiness index is required (30 November 03)
190. Why do civilisations decline? (2 December 03)
191. The hidden working hours (3 December 03)
192. ... that dare not speak its name (4 December 03)
193. Self-employment in the ex-mass production world (4 December 03)
194. The poverty of modern nation-states (4 December 03)
195. Whoops, Whampoa! (5 December 03)
196. Bush has suddenly become friendly to Europe! (6 December 03)
197. Watch out, politicians! There are nano-missiles about! (7 December 03)
198. The death of a Saudi Arabian princess (8 December 03)
199. A new basis for taxation that could catch criminals, too (9 December 03)
200. The vice that is now gripping the rich world (10 December 03)
201. What happens when Asia has caught up? (11 December 03)
202. Shakespeare's three great leaders -- Bush, Hu and Putin (12 December 03)
203. Coming of age in new times (12 December 03)
204. The causes of economic growth (13 December 03)
205. A tripartite solution for Iraq is necessary (13 December 03)
206. They've lost my IQ score! (13 December 03)
207. The dumb-bell shaped economy (14 December 03)
208. Saddam's capture and Blair's body language (14 December 03)
209. The inevitability of legalised euthanasia (15 December 03)
210. Virginia Postrels on aesthetics (15 December 03)
211. Status and Honours (15 December 03)
212. No time to relax, no time to use more goods, no economic growth (16 December 03)
213. From status to stratum (17 December 03)
214. What Keynes and Schumpeter thought about time (18 December 03)
215. Behaviour therapy in ancient Sparta (18 December 03)
216. The gene for cooking (19 December 03)
217. America is a dependency now (19 December 03)
218. Global warming -- the least of our worries (20 December 03)
219. Gaddafi has been more sensible than Saddam (21 December 03)
220. Cannibalism not far below the surface (21 December 03)
221. The big employment dilemma of the modern high-tech society (22 December 03)
222. The name of Bjorn Lomborg restored (22 December 03)
223. Climate change which way (23 December 03)
224. The complete cornucopia (23 December 03)
225. England's green and borrowed land (23 December 03)
226. The Wal-Martisation of jobs and society (24 December 03)
227. The authentic Jesus? (Christmas Day 03)
228. Appropriate sizes and shapes of new governments (26 December 03)
229. And now, the loss of the family (27 December 03)
230. More about time (lack of) (27 December 03)
231. Village churches as seedbeds? (28 December 03)
232. Components of happiness (29 December 03)
233. Eugenics in new guises (30 December 03)
234. Origins of homo sapiens (30 December 03)
235. Homeworking needs the customer approach (30 December 03)
236. Two economic scenarios for 2004 (31 December 03)
237. More high-flyers will be down-shifting in 2004 (31 December 03)
238. Predictions for 2004 (New Year's Day 04)
239. Towards Survival (with oil) (New Year's Day 04)
240. China -- a balance of low-tech and high-tech (2 January 04)
241. An imminent American invasion of Saudi Arabia? (3 January 04)
242. Status scars (3 January 04)
243. An attempted assassination of Tony Blair? (4 January 04)
244. Super-status (4 January 04)
245. A 4,000,000-fold dis-bonanza (5 January 04)
246. Where has music gone? (6 January 04)
247. The brave new world of branding (7 January 04)
248. Illusions of time and consciousness (8 January 04)
249. Two sorts of evolutionary economics (9 January 04)
250. Self-branding by charlatans (10 January 04)
251. The fragility of cultures (11 January 04)
252. Paint is peeling from the White House (12 January 04)
253. Peculiar America (13 January 04)
254. Foreign suitors for Iraqi oilfields (13 January 04)
255. The first step towards community again (14 January 04)
256. Bush's latest moonshine (15 January 04)
257. A colony on Mars is unlikely (16 January 04)
258. The big protective practice of modern life (16 January 04)
259. Bush's three body blows -- and each one hurts badly (17 January 04)
260. State education in the West needs a total make-over (18 January 04)
261. The brain-drain to America stops flowing (19 January 04)
262. Inept IBM (20 January 04)
263. 'Fake' dentists (21 January 04)
264. The economic flavour of the month -- fundamentalist terrorist groups (21 January 04)
265. The BBC at its best (22 January 04)
266. The big, big educational fallacy (23 January 04)
267. Sexual segregation (23 January 04)
268. Stephen Roach at Davos (24 January 04)
269. Where are the top universities? (25 January 04)
270. The Davos wake-up call to the European Union (26 January 04)
271. Terrorism and the in-group out-group instinct (27 January 04)
272. On the cusp of eugenics (28 January 04)
273. When will it become Simply Arabia? (28 January 04)
274. Three serious lapses in the Hutton Report (29 January 04)
275. Taxation and the grey economy is a see-saw (30 January 04)
276. The real solution to job outsourcing (31 January 04)
277. Outsourcing and job protectionism (1 February 04)
278. George Soros and the present insanity in America (1 February 04)
279. Do you trust the government? (1 February 04)
280. The Middle East Game so far: Iraq 6, America 1 (2 February 04)
281. The next "biggie" consumer item (3 February 04)
282. The secretive knowledge economy (3 February 04)
283. Let's have some real money! (4 February 04)
284. A delightful story from New Delhi (4 February 04)
285. Preparing for Saudi Arabia (4 February 04)
286. Altruism and other confusions of modern economists (5 February 04)
287. Just a reminder of our basic aggressiveness (5 February 04)
288. How absurd are Bush and Blair's reasons (6 February 04)
289. History books are like buses (6 February 04)
290. Boiling your enemies alive (7 February 04)
291. The oil plot thickens (8 February 04)
292. The decline of Western populations (8 February 04)
293. Bush the incompetent -- Bush the placeman (9 February 04)
294. A time for educational rejoicing (9 February 04)
295. Something curious is happening to jobs (10 February 04)
296. The necessary globalisation of education (11 February 04)
297. Ireland leads the way to a post-industrial society (11 February 04)
298. A break for (mathematical) humour (12 February 04)
299. Shooting ourselves in the (replaceable) foot (12 February 04)
300. "Don't misunderstand me, Mr President" (12 February 04)
301. "Democracy" has had its day (13 February 04)
302. How Bush should have invaded Iraq (13 February 04)
303. Living in a Fool's Paradise (13 February 04)
304. Democrats, Tories, economists and innovators are all clueless (14 February 04)
305. The fallacy of the service economy as something special (14 February 04)
306. A few notes on education, localisation and out-sourcing (15 February 04)
307. Bush is an inept conversationalist also (15 February 04)
308. Wow! Where do you go from knowledge? (15 February 04)
309. Love makes the (economic) world go round (16 February 04)
310. Hillary Clinton hints at the answer (17 February 04)
311. Sensible plans for Iraq will be turned down by Bush (18 February 04)
312. Kerry had better start worrying about the domestic economy (18 February 04)
313. Population collapse in China, too (18 February 04)
314. Two honourable professors (19 February 04)
315. More on human cell cloning (19 February 04)
316. No more job capacity left (20 February 04)
317. Unjust (and inefficient) taxation (21 February 04)
318. The use of red oxide as a status marker among the Samburu (21 February 04)
319. Hollowing-out -- myth and fact (21 February 04)
320. Warfare is natural, too (22 February 04)
321. Eugenics past and future (22 February 04)
322. The real problem of the out-sourcing of jobs (23 February 04)
323. Out-sourcing is not a trivial problem (23 February 04)
324. The sun was created 6,000 years ago (23 February 04)
325. A warning to Bush and Blair -- beware of the scientists! (24 February 04)
326. The only politics of tomorrow's world (24 February 04)
327. Maths melt-down in England (24 February 04)
328. Are we living in the same world? (24 February 04)
329. Ah! He's against gay marriage! (25 February 04)
330. Hurrah for the genetic cooks! (25 February 04)
331. Twin evils of modern society (25 February 04)
332. England, the 51st State of America (26 February 04)
333. I waved to a German bomber pilot (27 February 04)
334. Seeds of doubt about the Big Bang (27 February 04)
335. I would save the last few orangutans (27 February 04)
336. Candidates for tomorrow's world language (28 February 04)
337. Prepare for inflation! (28 February 04)
338. Blair was obliged to support Bush (29 February 04)
339. Sex is different for males and females -- very different (29 February 04)
340. Conflicting evidence of the addictiveness of drugs (1 March 04)
342. Of mice and men (2 March 04)
343. Status, even in death (3 March 04)
344. Welcome to Anil, Rina and Zhuo (4 March 04)
345. Status anxiety (4 March 04)
346. Reasons for the decline of the Muslim civilisation (5 March 04)
347. A plaint from an American teacher (6 March 04)
348. America's serious economic impasse (6 March 04)
349. UK children's passports = US educational vouchers (7 March 04)
350. Some definitions of goods (7 March 04)
351. The two shaping forces for community (8 March 04)
352. The protective practice of teacherdom (9 March 04)
353. Back to gold -- or something of value anyway (10 March 04)
354. The nuclear end of the nation-state (11 March 04)
355. After Madrid, when will it be Washington and London? (12 March 04)
356. The frequency of wars (12 March 04)
357. The unintelligent intelligence services (13 March 04)
358. When will Al Qaeda bomb London? (14 March 04)
359. A cornered team can be dangerous (15 March 04)
360. A desperate car industry (16 March 04)
361. The use of the car will have to decrease (16 March 04)
362. Feeding frenzy on luxury goods (17 March 04)
363. Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP) declined in 1976 (18 March 04)
364. Meet our friendly PhD delivery man (19 March 04)
365. And now, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) (19 March 04)
366. The 6th Mass Extinction? (20 March 04)
367. The 'Ghettoes' of the coming decades (21 March 04)
368. Why Israel and China will survive (22 March 04)
369. Xenophobia will always be with us (23 March 04)
370. How do we Westerners repay our huge debt to Islam? (24 March 04)
371. China's two-stage economic growth (25 March 04)
372. Is this the magic human gene? (26 March 04)
373. America will have to remain in Iraq for 10-20 years (26 March 04)
374. Economic no-growth -- but real, this time? (27 March 04)
375. The war with Saudi Arabia draws very near (28 March 04)
376. Globalisation is not a theory or conspiracy (28 March 04)
377. The forbidden word has been spoken! (28 March 04)
378. "Democracy" is a quirk of fate (29 March 04)
379. Turning the clock back in Afghanistan and Iraq (29 March 04)
380. Saddam Hussein's execution is most unlikely (29 March 04)
381. Setting fire to knowledge (29 March 04)
382. The coming extinction of the human species (30 March 04)
383. The lizard and the flow (31 March 04)
384. Bunkering-down in Iraq (1 April 04)
385. How much spare time? (2 April 04)
386. The prospect of a Muslim Europe? (4 April 04)
387. Alexander the Great was only 30 (6 April 04)
388. US jobs galore? (7 April 04)
389. Did I hear Kerry correctly? (7 April 04)
390. The Peasants' Revolt (8 April 04)
391. Resignations this Easter week-end (9 April 04)
392. Neanderthals didn't wear suits (9 April 04)
393. The failures of affirmative action (10 April 04)
394. The untermenschen (11 April 04)
395. Correction to "The untermenschen" (12 April 04)
396. "How do I invest for the future?" (13 April 04)
397. No Summertime for Bush's economy (14 April 04)
398. Another friendly dictator (15 April 04)
399. Bush faces defeat in Iraq (15 April 04)
400. Bush faces defeat in America (15 April 04)
401. Outsourcing returning home (16 April 04)
402. The Bush and Saud families (16 April 04)
403. The dangers of monotheism (17 April 04)
404. The denizens of the shallows (17 April 04)
405. Imminent catastrophe in Iraq (18 April 04)
406. Bush Senior and Kissinger's "holiday" in St Petersburgh (18 April 04)
407. Bremer's "Hail Mary pass" (19 April 04)
408. More on a "Hail Mary pass" (20 April 04)
409. The occupation of Iraq = the occupation of Northern Ireland (21 April 04)
410. White House interns = Wahhabi/Sunni imams (22 April 04)
411. Any doubts about the invasion of Iraq? (22 April 04)
412. The fate of states and state bureaucracies (22 April 04)
413. Learning from chimps (23 April 04)
414. Learning from baboons (23 April 04)
415. Bush's worst mistake (24 April 04)
416. Hierarchicists are environmentalists at heart (25 April 04)
417. Anglo-Sino university tie-up (26 April 04)
418. Collapse of developed countries (27 April 04)
419. The European Union is a mess and a loser (29 April 04)
420. The geopolitics of Iraq (30 April 04)
421. Urinating on Iraqis (1 May 04)
422. Chinese democracy = American non-democracy (2 May 04)
423. The rise of glossy fundamentalism and the decline of science in the US (3 May 04)
424. On the edge of a wider war (5 May 04)
425. Zero insurance at Ground Zero (5 May 04)
426. The dumbing-down alliance (6 May 04)
427. A solution for Iraq redux (7 May 04)
428. Desperate politicians (9 May 04)
429. The beginning of the next Great Depression? (10 May 04)
430. A case of information overload (11 May 04)
431. The decapitation of Nicholas Berg (12 May 04)
432. It's not what you know, but who you know (12 May 04)
433. So what is going to happen in Iraq? (13 May 04)
434. The Bush dynasty inter alia (15 May 04)
435. Thoughts provoked by a great tit (16 May 04)
436. Paul Bremer is at it again (16 May 04)
437. Provoking a civil war? (17 May 04)
438. Sutton and Kimbro -- honourable men (17 May 04)
439. The killer-ap in the Iraq affair (18 May 04)
440. Come back, Medieval Ages, all is forgiven (19 May 04)
441. Bush and Blair's quagmire (20 May 04)
442. Will the Ayatollah be taking tea with the Queen? (20 May 04)
443. Total humiliation of President Bush? (21 May 04)
444. Yawning gap between allies (21 May 04)
445. The beginning of the end, not the end of the beginning (21 May 04)
446. Softee, softee, catchee monkey (22 May 04)
447. British troops delayed -- forever? (22 May 04)
448. The Iraqis will take over power before the hand-over on 1 July (23 May 04)
449. The net is closing around the Bush administration (23 May 04)
450. Did the Muslims invent the cinema? (24 May 04)
451. The UN draft Resolution on Iraq will fail (25 May 04)
452. Blair's porky pie at today's press conference (25 May 04)
453. Blair falls into the yawning gap (26 May 04)
454. Large institutions become largely inefficient (27 May 04)
455. Blair 1, UK Generals 1, Bush 0 (27 May 04)
456. "In the name of God, go" (28 May 04)
457. The phenomenon of suicide bombers (29 May 04)
458. Iyad Alawi will be no answer for Iraq (29 May 04)
459. It's no holiday weekend in the Middle East (30 May 04)
460. Status makes you healthier, too (31 May 04)
461. Only "polite applause" from my customer (31 May 04)
462. Two governments in Iraq? (1 June 04)
463. The new US-UK resolution to the UN will fail, too (2 June 04)
464. Tectonic events will follow George Tenet's resignation (3 June 04)
465. The plot thickens (4 June 04)
466. No Cheney in the next US administration (5 June 04)
467. Tradition within the larger economic trends (6 June 04)
468. The coup de grâce for Cheney (6 June 04)
469. The death of Simon Cumbers (7 June 04)
470. Chinese boots on Riyadh's sidewalks? (8 June 04)
471. The civil war in Iraq goes up a notch (9 June 04)
472. The end of a significant historical period (10 June 04)
473. Future transational governments (12 June 04)
474. Another sign of the decline of the United States of America (14 June 04)
475. Bush invaded the wrong country (14 June 04)
476. The rise of the scientific intelligentsia (16 June 04)
477. My Rice Krispies can wait (17 June 04)
478. The religion that comforts me in the early hours (17 June 04)
479. The hour-glass of employment again (17 June 04)
480. Why a soccer team should be 10 men and not 11 (19 June 04)
481. Two civil wars already in the Middle East, perhaps three (20 June 04)
482. Vardy versus Varkey -- a bizarre juxtaposition (21 June 04)
483. Is Bush an alcoholic? (22 June 04)
484. Is Bush a dictator? (23 June 04)
485. Is Allawi a dictator in the making? (22 June 04)
486. Clustering towards a totally new built environment (23 June 04)
487. Helpless in Iraq (23 June 04)
488. The two big forces and the destiny of man (24 June 04)
489. Update on solar energy technology (25 June 04)
490. The two halves of the brain and the job market (26 June 04)
491. "This is killing me inside" (26 June 04)
492. ".... on June 30 the nightmare will begin" (26 June 04)
493. Western democracy? Not a chance in China (27 June 04)
494. Third set of a five-set match? (28 June 04)
496. Individuals in a bog (29 June 04)
497. Sinking into marshlands (29 June 04)
498. England is dividing in half (30 June 04)
499. The vulnerability of the nation-state (2 July 04)
500. Searching for the Holy Grail (3 July 04)
501. Retirement -- a vanishing act (4 July 04)
502. Stepping over old ladies (5 July 04)
503. The true politics of today (6 July 04)
504. Neither Milosevich nor Saddam Hussein (6 July 04)
505. Four states of war within the UK government (7 July 04)
506. What's good for General Electric? (10 July 04)
507. Let's reconstruct our institutions (11 July 04)
508. How to combat epidemic diseases (12 July 04)
509. The destruction of cities (13 July 04)
510. Bosses hanging about (14 July 04)
511. Predators of the nation-state (14 July 04)
512. No time, no need, no economic growth (16 July 04)
513. When will Israel attack Iran? (17 July 04)
514. Is this why Israel's wall is being built? (18 July 04)
515. Iraq is going backwards (19 July 04)
516. Colour -- the first status good? (20 July 04)
517. Working in the park (21 July 04)
518. The weapon of the future and its effect (22 July 04)
519. Jane Jacobs is still a hero of mine (23 July 04)
520. Richard Wilhelm and the tribal instinct (24 July 04)
521. Kerry's fatties (25 July 04)
522. ... and for my next conspiracy theory (1 August 04)
523. We have no time to stand and stare (2 August 04)
524. Hedge funds -- the latest scapegoat (3 August 04)
525. Expect Wal-Mart to start suffering soon (4 August 04)
526. I was wrong on two counts (5 August 04)
527. The pauperisation of Argentina and Russia (6 August 04)
528. Blair is turning against Bush (7 August 04)
529. The Bush team is in serious disarray now (8 August 04)
530. On the verge in Iraq and/or Iran (9 August 04)
531. Why read? (10 August 04)
532. Alternative energy from wave power (10 August 04)
533. It's a great day for England! (12 August 04)
534. Clusters for several different reasons (12 August 04)
535. A proxy war (Iraq) and a proxy battle (Najaf) (13 August 04)
536. Updating on a hydrogen economy (13 August 04)
537. Another route to the hydrogen economy (14 August 04)
538. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon (15 August 04)
539. The Esperanto$ (16 August 04)
540. Bonjour jeunesse (16 August 04)
541. Analysis of anti-Bush Nobel prizewinners (17 August 04)
542. The UK's dying national health service (18 August 04)
543. Will India make lift-off? (18 August 04)
544. China opens its shop (20 August 04)
545. The Status Principle -- weak and strong forms (22 August 04)
546. Growing up in non-society (23 August 04)
547. How China declares war on US and UK (24 August 04)
548. Fascinating news -- 1 (26 August 04)
549. Fascinating news -- 2 (26 August 04)
550. Fascinating news -- 3 (26 August 04)
551. Fascinating news -- 4 (26 August 04)
552. The death of amorphous cities (27 August 04)
553. The next resource wars (28 August 04)
554. A tripartite Iraq is emerging (29 August 04)
555. Signing America's death warrant? (31 August 04)
556. The Blair worm is turning (1 September 04)
557. Degrees of trust (2 September 04)
558. Is there life elsewhere? (3 September 04)
559. The tragedy at Beslan school and the real art of war (4 September 04)
560. Were Ossetians responsible for the Beslan tragedy? (5 September 04)
561. Fighterplanes and aircraft carriers are as dead as the Dodo (6 September 04)
562. The invasion of Saudi Arabia draws nearer (6 September 04)
563. Bankruptcy of Bush and Kerry policies for Iraq (8 September 04)
564. We'll be building more walls (9 September 04)
565. Is Bush now moving against Saudi Arabia? (11 September 04)
566. Population counter-trends (12 September 04)
567. In Russia, plus ça change, plus c'est le meme chose (12 September 04)
568. Cherie Blair has sacked her New York hairdresser (16 September 04)
569. Why not an ownership society? (17 September 04)
570. Whole trainfuls were massacred (19 September 04)
571. Diaspora governances of tomorrow (20 September 04)
572. The sawing of Eugene Armstrong's head (21 September 04)
573. Voting by ration cards (21 September 04)
574. Independence for the Shias of Iraq (22 September 04)
575. The Bush-Blair breach into the open (22 September 04)
576. Negotiating a breakaway for the Shias in Iraq? (24 September 04)
577. Is Rumsfeld raising the white flag? (25 September 04)
578. Kerry had better be very fast on his feet (26 September 04)
579. The demise of political parties (27 September 04)
580. Tomorrow's world of work (28 September 04)
581. Is al-Zarqawi winning? (30 September 04)
582. The Bonfire of (paper) Vanities (30 September 04)
583. A Shia breakaway seems likely (1 October 04)
584. The questions that economists seldom ask (2 October 04)
585. Engineering with natural materials (5 October 04)
586. The fate of Kenneth Bigley (5 October 04)
587. A fascist dictatorship in Russia? (5 October 04)
588. The Bush Senior gamble is over (8 October 04)
589. A sustainable energy policy? (8 October 04)
590. Requiescat in pace, Kenneth (9 October 04)
591. The two great discoveries in education (10 October 04)
592. We will need parallel hospitals (12 October 04)
593. The end of the beginning in Iraq? (16 October 04)
594. Is Bush stupid or super-intelligent? (17 October 04)
595. Europe's economy is failing (18 October 04)
596. The kidnapping of Margaret Hassan (20 October 04)
597. Letter sent to the Financial Times this morning (20 October 04)
598. Who is our Chief of Defence Staff? (21 October 04)
599. Social stratification and inter-cultural tension (22 October 04)
600. Sport in aid (23 October 04)
601. There'll be dismay in Iraq, too (24 October 04)
602. Wearing Chinese socks (25 October 04)
603. New policy after 2 November 2004 (26 October 04)
604. Bad news for the European Union (27 October 04)
605. Welcome to Homo floresiensis! (28 October 04)
606. Stem cell technology is intellectually exciting (29 October 04)
607. A desperate Osama Bin Laden (30 October 04)
608. Enlisting Tom Wolfe in aid (31 October 04)
609. The new eugenics (1 November 04)
610. As we wait during the US Presidential election (2 November 04)
611. The presidential election not an anthropological experiment? (3 November 04)
612. Getting through the oil era (4 November 04)
613. On not making the same anti-globalisation mistake (8 November 04)
614. We will live in interesting times! (9 November 04)
615. Eugenics -- the next status good? (12 November 04)
616. The latest resource war (19 November 04)
617. Bush has won Fallujah but lost Iraq (20 November 04)
618. How the mighty might fall (23 November 04)
619. Onto my hobby horse again! (25 November 04)
620. The coming world currency (26 November 04)
621. Yet more genetic actors (28 November 04)
622. We're sinking fast (30 November 04)
623. Bush's second administration is already in trouble (3 December 04)
624. Bush's eyes would glaze over again (4 December 04)
625. My brief dabble in education policy (5 December 04)
626. Education for work (6 December 04)
627. Chinese railways in America? (9 December 04)
628. Economists and politicians need to spell it out (15 December 04)
629. Bush is becoming increasingly rudderless (16 December 04)
630. A very scarey article (18 December 04)
631. Concern for others? -- not really (19 December 04)
632. Where Japan leads, we (and America) will follow (21 December 04)
633. Bush's second administration doomed before it starts (22 December 04)
634. A magical Victorian Christmas? (24 December 04)
635. Now it's Democracy+ for Iraq (26 December 04)
636. The unions and the employers are in agreement about education (27 December 04)
637. Will China hold together? (28 December 04)
638. Natural and man-made disasters (29 December 04)
639. Scary job trends in developed countries (31 December 04)
640. New Year Day--another day in the obsolescence of the nation-state (1 January 05)
641. Political disaster in the White House soon? (2 January 05)
642. China and India could beat the US and UK hands down (3 January 05)
643. Education for tomorrow's world of work (4 January 05)
644. Penury awaits several million European workers (5 January 05)
645. Unfortunately, I have a credit card (6 January 05)
646. Blair persuades Bush to leave Iraq (7 January 05)
647. Bush will still vacate Iraq -- without Blair's inputs (8 January 05)
648. Economic stagnation stalks the developed world (9 January 05)
649. History is still far from correct about the Industrial Revolution (11 January 05)
650. The world begins to panic over China (12 January 05)
651. America pulling troops out of Iraq (13 January 05)
652. The end of our present economic system (14 January 05)
653. Vacating Babylon -- vacating Iraq? (15 January 05)
654. Bush has sowed the wind (18 January 05)
655. Britain urges America to withdraw from Iraq (20 January 05)
656. When on the defence, attack (21 January 05)
657. It's 16.30 hours for America (22 January 05)
658. Gerontocracy rules OK? (23 January 05)
659. A vote of no confidence in America (24 January 05)
660. An environmental J-curve (25 January 05)
661. The intellectual poverty of the Bush administration (26 January 05)
662. The White House is about to crumble (27 January 05)
663. Building a better mousetrap (27 January 05)
664. The real President of America (28 January 05)
665. No change in Iraq -- the election will continue (30 January 05)
666. The pauperisation of America (31 January 05)
667. Do we need sexy robots? (2 February 05)
668. Bush at the end of his tether? (4 February 05)
669. A three-handed currency game (7 February 05)
670. Safe nuclear power? (8 February 05)
671. A defining point in history? (8 February 05)
672. Even China might not save America (9 February 05)
673. But how will the Iraqi Election be fiddled? (10 February 05)
674. A Shia uprising very soon? (11 February 05)
675. No sex, we're American (12 February 05)
676. Intellectual bankruptcy of America (12 February 05)
677. England's political condition (14 February 05)
678. Why are the North Koreans so clever? (16 February 05)
679. The stagnation of Japan and Europe (17 February 05)
680. Bye-bye Rumsfeld (19 February 05)
681. The small events of history (21 February 05)
682. The small insults of history (22 February 05)
683. Our paradoxical frontal lobes (23 February 05)
684. Lateralising governance (26 February 05)
685. Distrurbing trends in Russia (1 March 05)
686. Job opportunities in the White House (3 March 05)
687. Not the "greatest challenge" (4 March 05)
688. The irony of the fundamentalist backlash (5 March 05)
689. What does the richest man in the world say? (7 March 05)
690. Odd events in the White House (8 March 05)
691. Blair broke the Constitution (9 March 05)
692. The basic contradiction of developed nations (11 March 05)
693. Week-end questions (and an answer) for America (12 March 05)
694. The mental backwardness of America and President Bush (14 March 05)
695. On a future demographic divide (18 March 05)
696. Expect Rumsfeld to go soon (19 March 05)
697. Junk debt nation-states (21 March 05)
698. The unbounding American economy (22 March 05)
699. "To those that hath shall be given" (Matthew ch25v29) (23 March 05)
700. Retaining those brains (24 March 05)
701. Good Friday reasons for stem cell research (25 March 05)
702. Euthanasia and neuroscience (26 March 05)
703. Global warming, then cooling (27 March 05)
704. The 40-year itch -- or time-bomb for politicians? (31 March 05)
705. Emergency oil plan (1 April 05)
706. Nonsense reason for economic stagnation (2 April 05)
707. The three bell curves (4 April 05)
708. No real breakthrough in Iraq (6 April 05)
709. An interesting Conclave (10 April 05)
710. The double-death of Russia (11 April 05)
711. The double-death of Iraq (11 April 05)
712. Rumsfeld's swansong (12 April 05)
713. The real significance of the failed invasion of Iraq (12 April 05)
714. In and out of Iraq in seven steps (14 April 05)
715. Whoops! Sorry for the mess. How much do we owe you? (14 April 05)
716. The mighty is about to fall (18 April 05)
717. The new Pope will be of little importance (19 April 05)
718. But what about the good news? (21 April 05)
719. Where do we come from? (24 April 05)
720. Small earthquake kills few people (26 April 05)
721. The quintessential parallel between Bush and Genghis Khan (27 April 05)
722. The amazing blindspot of economists (29 April 05)
723. "For ye have the poor always with you" (Matthew ch.26 v.11) (30 April 05)
724. The (scientific) jury is still out on global warming (1 May 05)
725. The two-country civil war (5 May 05)
726. The Xmas pudding world (5 May 05)
727. The future might be xylan-sweet (6 May 05)
728. The pursuit of happiness (7 May 05)
729. Investment stuck up a gum tree (9 May 05)
730. Blair's last shot? (10 May 05)
731. N. S. Aleinikova and I (12 May 05)
732. The race to the top -- and the bottom (13 May 05)
733. American turkeys voting for Xmas (14 May 05)
734. Imminent change of policy in Iraq? (15 May 05)
735. America trembles on the edge of four disasters (17 May 05)
736. Man's two worlds (18 May 05)
737. Civil war in Iraq goes up a notch (19 May 05)
738. The most profitable consumer goods yet (20 May 05)
739. A very disunited Bush administration (21 May 05)
740. A birthday present to myself (22 May 05)
741. More on Genghis Khan and his descendants (23 May 05)
742. Defenceless America (24 May 05)
743. Bush enters dangerous territory (24 May 05)
744. The elephant problem (25 May 05)
745. Ideas (26 May 05)
746. What will happen on this holiday? (27 May 05)
747. The future of education (19 June 05)
748. More than enough goodies (21 June 05)
749. Twin Towers will not be rebuilt (22 June 05)
750. The smartest people on earth (23 June 05)
751. Bush is bluffing about not withdrawing from Iraq (25 June 05)
752. Dumbing down: smartening up (26 June 05)
753. Change of routine (2 July 05)
754. The smartest people were Americans (5 July 05)
755. London terrorism and the Bonaparte syndrome (8 July 05)
756. Condi's whirlwind tour (9 July 05)
757. A trivial attack could now bring the UK low (10 July 05)
758. The mills of God (12 July 05)
759. Two-way destruction (13 July 05)
760. Terrorist attacks are not about terrorism (14 July 05)
761. The person Blair fears the most (15 July 05)
762. Iraqi follow-up of London bombings (16 July 05)
763. Blair will withdraw British troops from Iraq soon (19 July 05)
764. The City of London grapevine (20 July 05)
765. Is today an historical day? (21 July 05)
766. A second reason for yesterday appearing in the history books (22 July 05)
767. More London bombings to come, no doubt (25 July 05)
768. Oh, what a tangled web we weave (26 July 05)
769. The big debate (27 July 05)
770. SAPIENTIA Discussion List (30 July 05)
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