A Rather Gourd Looking Specimen
It’s just a jump to the left … and a sharp knife to the right. Not your usual carving. But then, nor was the original production. Kiss me Magenta.
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Nature Needs Markets, Not Fan Clubs – Thoughts Ahead Of COP 31
Remarks to Panel: Can the UK Truly Become a Sustainability Superpower — or Is That Political Rhetoric? CC Forum, Mayfair Hotel, London Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, First my sincere thanks to CC Forum for all their hard work, especially…
Ruby Slippers & Rocket Fuel: 40 Years Since Big Bang
Forty years after Big Bang, on a Ruby Tuesday, I skipped the early morning event at the London Stock Exchange where nearly 200 people arose to ring the bell. However, my good friend George Littlejohn was undeterred from making sure…
Pepys Encounters Of A Third Kind
Pepys Day has turned out to be quite the fun occasion. For a third time (see Pepys Day! Part Deux & Pepys Day! Part Deux) we have had a wonderful celebration of the City of London and its most famous…
Gaslit By An AI?
So there you are reading a book when you want to go back to find a reference to Paul Samuelson’s remarks on epsilon and Gertrude Stein, but you can’t seem to find it. Naturally, you consult the index on Stein…
Artificial Intelligence: The Hand We’re Dealt Makes Life Worth Living
JOINT LUNCHEON Remarks to: Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers&Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards Professor Michael MainelliThursday, 30 July 2026Dyers’ Hall
Pepys Day 2026: There He Goes Again!
Pepys Day 2026 takes place on Friday, 4 September 2026. The event features guided walking tours and historical ceremonies commemorating the diarist’s accounts of the Great Fire of London – In September 1666 the Great Fire of London swept…
Europeana Twin.it!
One of our intended-to-be-swift-but-resulted-in-longer-term projects as Lord Mayor was to get the Guildhall scanned in 3D as part of Europeana’s Twin-it.
Space-Junk Bonds
“Tax heavens” (May 30th) looked at how to tax businesses that operate in space and the growth of offplanet finance. The more immediate market failure is not untaxed Martian income, but unpriced, man-made orbital debris; there are 140m pieces up…
Ordinary Wisdom For Extraordinary Machines
Remarks to: World Technology Congress, Thursday, 23 April 2026, Lake Como, Italy Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I want to begin with a confession. I came to Lake Como this week telling myself it was a professional duty. But with…