About Georgia’s bumpy road to democracy.

Post with lots of links on the difficult time for Ireland and its very unpopular government.

Signs of change in attitudes to Islam in Europe. A highly critical review of a (pdf) new book worried about Muslims in Europe. The UK reports a tenfold increase in suspected forced marriages in four years ( Read more... )

Football can help explain the difference between risk and uncertainty.

Economist Frank Knight famously differentiated between risk and uncertainty:
Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar notion of Risk, from which it has never been properly separated.... The essential fact is that 'risk' means in some cases a ( Read more... )