Author: |Posted: 6:10 pm on 10/08/09
Category: Faisal Islam on Economics
‘Grow your own veg’ is an oddly resonant message in uncertain economic times.
I heard it first from my father, when he sent his youngest three children to help him tend to his Manchester Council allotment at Bradley Folds next to the River Mersey.
Now I’d rather have been tending to a football than fetching manure, but there is something utterly wondrous about eating a meal from your own organically nurtured crops. And now it seems, my parents may well have been far more visionary than a sulky kid may have appreciated in 1980s south Manchester. read more
Author: |Posted: 12:22 pm on 04/03/09
Category: World News Blog
SINGAPORE – When Gordon Brown said that he wouldn’t be dictated to by “a few speculators who want to make money out of Britain,” he was talking about Jim Rogers. Peter Mandelson called Mr Rogers “foolish“.
Those were understandable responses to Mr Rogers’ assertions that post-oil-and-credit-boom Britain “had nothing left to sell” and that “sterling is finished”.
On the way back from my trip to China, I decided to pop in on him in Singapore, and find out if he was a maestro or madman. read more
