Valve Software: free marketeer's dream, or nightmare?
The first anti-cap software company.Valve Software's chief economist, Yanis Varoufakis, has a post up detailing the strange corporate structure of the company, famous for its string of hits from the...
View ArticleCycling through France
...and unlearning the mentality of road vermin. France is exactly the same. Completely different. With the Tour de France just over for another year, you can sense the national respect for cycling in...
View ArticleThe Olympics through the lens
London launched a rich variety of Olympic photography exhibitions last week.You could be forgiven for not knowing where to look first as the capital city launched a myriad Olympic photography...
View ArticleStreet harassment and the power of hard evidence
A Belgian documentary featuring hidden camera footage of men harassing women in the street has made the problem much harder to ignore.Earlier this year, a man using an outdoor public urinal shouted...
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Chart of the day: Scotland is not the biggest fan of the Union Jack
British Future (before the Olympics, if it matters) asked a panel of British people what they associated the Union Jack with. These are their answers.
View ArticleCycling through Italy
...and being passed by groups of old men. I've climbed through the Alps. The world feels different up there... all silent and timeless beneath peaks where snow still shines in the sunlight. I've ridden...
View ArticleTime Out to go free in London from Autumn
Weekly listings magazine hopes circulation will soar from 50,000 to 300,000.London’s weekly listings mag Time Out is to go free later this year, it announced this moring Time Out said that the new...
View ArticleBrooks and six other journalists charged over hacking
Former NI chief will appear in court next month.Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was formally charged with phone hacking today and will appear in court next month, Scotland Yard...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers.1. Is Boris serious? When it comes to No 10, the answer is deadly so (Daily Telegraph) After years of brilliant digression, London’s mayor is...
View ArticleVideo: Jeremy Hunt greets Rupert Murdoch at the Olympics
Culture Secretary talks with News Corp head outside the Aquatics Centre.You almost have to admire his chutzpah. From last night, here's footage of Jeremy Hunt warmly greeting Rupert Murdoch at the...
View ArticleThe left cannot remain silent over "honour killings"
We have become complicit in this epidemic of abuse and violence by not doing more to challenge it.The murder of the teenager Shafilea Ahmed is likely to stand out in British history as a particularly...
View ArticleCameron has promised what he cannot deliver on social exclusion
We need to recognise the limits to the state's ability to solve complex social problems.In the dark, panic-fuelled days following last summer’s riots, David Cameron made a knee-jerk pledge to turn...
View ArticleThe first social media Olympics: the highlights
Gymnasts being superhuman in handy GIF form.This has been the first mass social media games. We’ve seen the dark side, with the Tom Daley troll incident, but you’d have to say the overall effect has...
View ArticleWithout the boundary changes, a Tory majority is impossible
Cameron's party would need a lead of 11 points to win without the changes.There is no guarantee that the Lib Dems will vote down the planned boundary changes in retaliation for the abandonment of House...
View ArticleCayman Islands scrap planned income tax
Tax haven remains tax haven.The Cayman islands, famed for being a haven for tax exiles and a jurisdiction which imposes minimal transparency requirements on foreign businesses, has scrapped an income...
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Chart of the day: tin-rattlers
Most of us give to charity in some way. Actually, scratch that: most of us give to charity in one way. Collection tins are by far the most popular way to donate to charity.
View ArticleMeet Miliband's new guru: Tim Soutphommasane
The young Australian shaping Labour's thinking on patriotism. In tomorrow's New Statesman, I profile Tim Soutphommasane, the young Australian intellectual shaping the Labour leadership's thinking on...
View ArticleAmazon ventures into social gaming
"Amazon Game studios" launched The new team created by Amazon will focus on creating "innovative, fun and well-crafted games." The company's first social game called "Living Classics" is now available...
View ArticleAre ISPs the problem or the solution to getting broader broadband?
We need fast broadband, and we need it everywhere. But is it harder to do with one company controlling a third of the market?One of the most exciting things about growing a business in the 21st Century...
View ArticleElton John sues the Times
Singer was accused in two recent articles of tax avoidance.Sir Elton John is seeking damages from the Times for the "insult and injury" caused by two libellous articles that accused him of tax...
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