Opinion

There’s an old saying that cropped up the other day in respect of Margaret Thatcher’s son, Mark. It was a joking reference by Margaret that her son was so clever he could sell “snow to eskimos or sand to Arabs” or, as one wag put it, arms to anyone. Anyways, it’s a message worth remembering as…

One of the discussions I was having recently was around a future vision for banking, and the idea of branchless banking reared its ugly head again. As mentioned many times, I don’t believe in branchless banking in the future .. just less branches for banking. Anyways, this discussion veered in another direction that also rang…

One of the discussions I was having recently was around a future vision for banking, and the idea of branchless banking reared its ugly head again. As mentioned many times, I don’t believe in branchless banking in the future .. just less branches for banking. Anyways, this discussion veered in another direction that also rang…

We recently celebrated the two hundredth birthday of Charles Darwin.  Darwin, the man who broke through the prejudiced views of the religious world of the Victorian era by being brave enough to say we were descended from apes and not created by God. That is a debate that still rages even today, and it is clear…

Building upon the theme that you cannot have privacy, even if you are a cybercriminal or cybersecurity expert, you cannot have privacy if you are a social media aficionado. And no greater illustration of the social media aficionado is there than Mark Zuckerburg, uberfacebook leader of the world. A man with over a billion followers, and…

Following on from my previous two polemics: Stop talking about mobile, it's not important; and Money is meaningless I’m now moving on to the final contentious point which is that capitalism is dead. We all knew that capitalism died in 2008 when the crisis hit, or at least the Anglo-Saxon version of capitalism that was…