Why the ECB saving the euro is anything but simple

The Al-Qaeda preacher Abu Qatada is a Jordanian national who is in the UK illegally (having come here in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport). The headache he has caused successive UK governments looks like finally reaching a peak. But there is a simple solution to the problem he poses. Last month, not only for the first time in the decade-long Qatada process, but for the first time eve...

Expect £75 billion next week. That will be £350 billion in all of Quantitiative Easing. The outcome is simple: another £75 billion of government debt will be purchased by the Bank of England. And as I explained last week, this debt will never be resold.

The community charge - better known as poll tax - was meant to be a simple and fair way for everyone who used them to pay for local services.

Anybody who has ever read this blog will know that Ms Wood and I are poles apart politically. I won't bother to go into specifics, because a simple Google search can do a better job, and a Google search will show, without doubt, that Ms Wood and I are not bedfellows – by a long, long, long way! I'm a right winger; Leanne is very much to my antipathy –she's a horrid lefty! I hate left wing

If I said the words “telecare” and “telehealth” to the person on the street it’s likely they wouldn’t have a clue what I was on about. They’re hardly phrases which just trip off the tongue. But dig under that jargon and you’ll find that these are really very simple technologies which can help elderly people

As emails were going around on the campaign to protect disability benefits, various people asked for simple tools that I've seen developed and used in the past for campaigning. And yet, there seems to be no resource for activists who aren't very tech savvy to grab, adapt and use fairly straight-forward activist tools.

Sex, smoking and drinking: the past week’s TV schedule was filled with investigations into simple pleasures.

This is an explanation so simple and easy to understand that even someone "Inside the Beltway" should be able to grasp the concept! By taking the numbers down to a point where it may actually apply to the people on Main Street that the Congress and the President profess to be trying to help, it makes the concept of deficit spending easy to understand! (Click to enlarge)H/T SF Become a fan of The P...

What causes discrimination? Conventionally, there are two views on this. One is taste discrimination; some people would rather not hire blacks or women or gays or whatever simply because they don’t like them. However, a recent experiment suggests that there’s another form of discrimination that is harder to eliminate - a simple lack of Bayesian reasoning.