2015

All years and months

What is wrong with the National Front?

The author dislikes nationalism but doubts Europe will drift into fascism in the foreseeable future, favours managed immigration and a more federated world, and proposes that ageing Western pensioners retire…

Brown Pundits Archive13 January 20150 comments
My prospective Hindu father-in-law quoting Baha'u'llah

Noting that only about 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste, the author says he is grateful that his prospective Hindu father-in-law freely quotes Bahá’u’lláh.

Brown Pundits Archive12 January 20150 comments
Starting the week

The author expects the oil price to fall as low as $30 before recovering, says central bank stimulus continues a slow post-2008 recovery, and points to the falling price of…

Brown Pundits Archive12 January 20150 comments
Is caste system a curse

http://m.thehindu.com/data/just-5-per-cent-of-indian-marriages-are-intercaste/article6591502.ece/

Brown Pundits Archive10 January 20150 comments
Whose fault is it?

The author, a British Pakistani, says Pakistan’s trouble is the fault of Pakistanis, sees a meltdown in the Ummah, and argues Muslims in the West should lead efforts to modernise…

Brown Pundits Archive9 January 20150 comments
markets today. 09.01.15

A market note on 9 January 2015: Greek debt rising ahead of its election, oil near $40 a barrel and the euro heading towards parity, with the author describing portfolio…

Brown Pundits Archive9 January 20150 comments
Things Will Get Worse..

Written on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack, warning that things will get worse, and quoting Salman Rushdie’s tweet defending satire and rejecting ‘respect for religion’ as code for…

Brown Pundits Archive7 January 20150 comments
Good Nutrition Good Life

The poster links a lecture by Samantha Gilbert urging people to replace processed food with natural food, and is surprised how little attention people pay to nutrition.

Brown Pundits Archive6 January 20150 comments
Understanding the power of religion

Quoting an interview in which the interviewee says Western diplomacy has underestimated the sincerity and galvanising power of religion, the poster adds a hope that tolerance may one day flourish…

Brown Pundits Archive6 January 20150 comments
Power of the Monarchy

A speculative line of succession in the British monarchy, noting that Prince George’s child could continue the Windsor pattern of long reigns.

Brown Pundits Archive5 January 20150 comments