A very strange French ad for a drink.

Joe Scalzi on six reasons why it sucks to be a Jedi.

“Dictatorship can return”: a great TV ad from Tunisia.

How to become a best-selling author without a publisher. About book reviewing on Amazon™.

Great moment in tabloid headlines.

In comic books, villains earn and heroes inherit. More on that.The ( Read more... )

As eurogeddon approaches, and a serious economist wonders if the European Central Bank qualifies for a Darwin Award, an operatic scene satirising bankers provides light relief.

About Norway’s “gentle” system not coping with a mass murderer.

About the riots, poor policing and breakdown in the UK’s work and reward system. The English riots and a wider class war.

Drug use is declining in the UK among young adults.

Fear in Brussels. The likelihood of a Greek default is rising. Predicting a request for the US to bail out ( Read more... )

About the economics of natural disasters.

Selecting the top 20 articles from (pdf) the AER since it started. About that selection.

Great talk by Deidre McCloskey on economic history and optimism.

About aggregate supply and aggregate demand.

Nice post on the success of Swedish monetary policy - by a Czech physicist.

About productivity in recent ( Read more... )

19 killed in stampede at German music festival.

Noting that European politics has been moving rightwards for both cyclical and structural reasons.

About the euro and political sovereignty.

About Portugal’s experience with drug decriminalisation.

The fertility rate of Danish migrants is now falling to that of the general Danish population ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you ask a question and you just hit comedy gold.

The funniest piece on monetary economics you are ever going to read (no, really).

Responding to the viral cartoon on Quantitative Easing. (The original animation falls into the “very funny but not entirely accurate” category.)

The follow-up to the Hayek-versus-Keynes “Fear the Boom and ( Read more... )

Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels has been creating a stir with his cotentions, based on his work in Danish prisons, on criminality, Muslim culture and problems of integration. He holds that general integration of Muslims into Western societies is not possible (which it is certainly not if your ideal is the degree of cultural homogeneity that ( Read more... )

Some cool pictures of Iceland.

Arab and Turkish migrants in Germany have been showing their support for Germany’s soccer team, and getting harassed by leftist anarchists for doing so.

A Spanish ex-politician, journalist and leftwinger attacks what she sees as the European left’s hypocrisy over Jews and Palestine ( Read more... )

Dustin (Hoffman) and Jason (Bateman) doing the big kiss thing.

Iceland’s PM has married her partner of several years.

UK forced marriages unit is finding gay or bisexual men being forced into marriages.

Slavic gay pride in Belarus defies ban.

China has its first gay pageant.

About standing against Uganda’s “execute homosexuals” laws ( Read more... )

An animated scenario that any teacher can empathise with.

Having fun with a blog on awful library books.

Czech schools may be giving up teaching handwriting and just teach handprinting instead.

Geoffrey Blainey on doing history.

Review of a documentary critiquing public education in the US.

Judge grants German family refugee status because ( Read more... )