Finite Model Theory

Is Labour abolishing illness? (The New Statesman)

1 May 2008

Incapacity benefit has become one of this year's favourite scare stories. Hardly a day passes without a new headline deploring its soaring costs and the rising numbers of claimants who get "something for nothing", at the expense of decent, hardworking taxpayers.

Everything you want to know about the bank crisis (The New Statesman)

1 May 2008

How bad is it? This is the worst financial crisis in 60 years, and it has shaken the banking system to its foundations. Even the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has compared the crisis to the Great Depression and he is not given to overstatement.

Pound fall is UK's get-out-of-jail-free card (Daily Telegraph)

28 Apr 2008

My suggestion last week that the key to getting out of the current mess lies with a lower pound elicited a large response. 'Disgusteds' wrote in droves from far and wide across the land. I feel that I must reply.