Subclassed

On Saturday evening, I've officially stopped using Facebook, Twitter and G+. The reason is that I was sucked into socialmedia-overloa...

(Apologies, this post is for Italian readers only.) Il 26 Maggio a Bologna si terrà un referendum consultivo sul finanziamento comunale d...

I just experienced my first real professional failure in almost two years of consulting for my current employer. I'm not saying I've...

(Small things, but...) Today I had to took my car to the garage, so had to tell my manager I'd likely be late (public transport is not ...

(Apologies, this post is only in Italian) Questa mattina il Corriere della Sera ha fatto risparmiare qualche litro di caffe' ai poveri ...

tell them they are "high cost" compared to Egyptian, Indian or Rumanian counterparts. tell them that, despite the company being af...

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi , the current Tory Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, exemplifies why we will always have racist and intolerant ...

Every once in a while, we get an ironic reminder of how mass-literature is fundamentally formulaic. Cartoonists are especially (but not excl...

It's been almost a month since my last blogpost. Many, many things happened, but unfortunately I can't talk about them here, as much...

Bilingual children surely must be stupid . The reasoning behind the process is typical of laws promoted by George W. Bush: if you are not a ...

"...then they go and put Arlene McCarthy top of the ticket in the North West". "Do you mean that Arlene McCarthy? The one w...

I try not to worry about political issues too much these days, but this post is not really about politics. Comedy , rather. David Ottewell,...

I started tracking my activities using Toggl . The concept is very simple: the site gives you a timer that you can "toggle" to sig...

...is that logic and rhetoric are not taught well, or (like in my experience) not taught at all. This is reflected in the political debate,...

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Dear Sam, I have to say, I really hate you. You keep shattering my little dreams of suburban happiness, my little delusions of American Dre...

From medical journal TheLancet : "Mass privatisation programmes were associated with an increase in short-term adult male mortality rat...

Planet Jupiter moves to the Aquarius sector in 2009, and this is supposed to be a good thing for people born (like me) between 21th January ...

Libertà e giustizia sociale, che sono poi le mete del socialismo, costituiscono un binomio inscindibile. Se a me socialista offrissero la r...