First I owe you all an apology for having stopped writing here. I did so because I felt I was repeating myself and because I ran our of energy. What I regret most is that the lovely community of ...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2023/06/a-golem-xiv-type-podcast/
For anyone interested in AI here is the film I was working on a year or so ago. I was hired to do the interviews. The film is directed by Leanne Pooley. The film is released by Universal and is a...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2020/04/we-need-to-talk-about-ai/
For a great many of us in the industrialised countries, especially the relatively affluent and comfortable middle class, death and our mortality are something we have pushed to the margins of our...
Surely it is time to stop pretending that in all of Africa there are only one or two cases of Coronavirus? Everything we now know about the virus makes this virtually impossible to believe. We ...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2020/02/corona-virus-africa-update-and-peek-into-the-near-future/
Like every issue of consequence, in our Age of Incomprehension, opinion about the truth concerning the Corona virus outbreak is divided. Either China is taking all prudent steps, the virus, w...
When I look around at the state of public discourse in ‘the West’ what strikes me is that everyone says they want to have a reasoned and rational debate but say that the reason it doesn’t...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2019/05/how-to-prevent-debate-while-claiming-to-be-in-favour-of-it/
There’s been a lot of Regime Change around in the last few years. One might even think it had become a nasty habit: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela. These are just the most ...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2019/02/regime-change-part-one-how-its-done/
While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will surv...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2019/02/its-not-brexit-but-deutsche-it-you-want-to-worry-about/
On Wednesday Feb 7th 2007 HSBC issued a profit warning. It was the first in its 142 year history. The bank told its share holders it would have to take an unprecedented charge of $10.5 billion ...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2018/10/debt-is-back-but-this-time-its-corporate/
A couple of days ago the always good Francis Coppola wrote a piece for Forbes entitled, The Banks That Helped Danske Bank Estonia Launder Russian Money In it she made the simple but essential po...
https://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2018/10/danske-bank-who-helped-them-launder/