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India’s population to reach 1.428 bn people

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Indian population could reach 1.428 billion people by mid 2023 surpassing China’s 1.425bn according to the UN. New Delhi hopes the expansion will deliver economic dividends as it harnesses the skills of young workforce, India overlook UK last year to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, is seeking to profit as supply chains shift from China, including the opening of Apple’s store in India earlier last week. China’s economy would continue to remain bigger than India’s despite the demographic shift. If China stopped growing this year and India’s economy expanded by 10 per cent yearly, it would still take almost two … Continue reading India’s population to reach 1.428 bn people

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Apple’s first Indian store

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The Cupertino Tech giant Apple opened its first store in India, called Apple BKC, located in Mumbai’s financial hub inside the Jio World Drive Mall at Bandra-Kurla Complex, owned by billionaire Mukesh Ambani. Apple CEO Tim Cook has long held a bullish view on India said “India has such a beautiful culture and an incredible energy, and we’re excited to build on our long-standing history”. Apple did not open any Apple stores because of a myth that poor Indians could not afford Apple prices, and now the company is ramping up sales and looking to manufacture its flagship iPhone in … Continue reading Apple’s first Indian store

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Lisbon: Secret places

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Lisbon, the capital of a rickety global empire, the first global city, home to the first start-ups in European exploration before the big shots  – England, Spain and France – moved in. John Masefield’s poem “cargoes”. A ship “dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores”, another with cargo of ivory, apes, peacocks, sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet white wine, when colonialism was in its infancy. In the Age of Discovery,  we remember these cargoes with layers of gold, shipped from the slave mines, come with side orders of agate, amethyst and yellow jade, were more likely to be slaves than … Continue reading Lisbon: Secret places

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AI startup by Musk

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Tech Billionaire Elon Musk, Tesla and Twitter owner, wants to launch and AI start-up to compete with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. He is lining up investors  about put money into his new venture. Musk had secured several thousand high powered  GPU processors from Nvidia and aims to build a large language model – AI systems capable of ingesting enormous amounts of content and producing humanlike writing or realistic imagery, similar to ChatGPT. Musk is recruiting engineers  from top AI labs including DeepMind and brought on board Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, and other engineers. Musk could you Twitter content as data … Continue reading AI startup by Musk

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Inflation stems from policy error

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Myth-busting from investors and monetary authorities to governments and policy makers, almost everyone had assumed inflation was dead and buried. The poisonous new economic reality and the prospect of vast and increasing wealth inequality, Inflation stems from policy error, sovereign greed and a collective loss of faith in currencies.  Every two generations  we are destined to repeat serious policy mistakes. In Britain the Truss government failed to stem inflation and the world’s central banks too have failed to learn from the oil price shocks of 1973 and 1980.We Need to Talk about Inflation offers an instructive lessons from economic history, … Continue reading Inflation stems from policy error

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Driverless Fords get green light on UK Roads: One foot on the future

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UK became the first country in Europe to approve the Hands-free cars driving on the 2, 300-mile motorway network on British roads for the first time.UK Transport minister Jesse Norman have granted permission for Ford to turn on its Blue Cruise system allowing hands-off eyes-on driving in England, Wales and Scotland. He was delighted that Britain was paving the way for driverless technology, and would help make roads more safer by reducing scope for driver error, The car is equipped with sensors that monitors the driver’s eye toensure they are always on the road. If they become distracted an alarm … Continue reading Driverless Fords get green light on UK Roads: One foot on the future

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Queen of Swinging Sixties dies aged 93

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Dame Mary Quant, daughter of Welsh teachers, Jack and Mildred, British fashion designer and  inventor of hotpants and miniskirts in 60s dies aged 93. Quant initially sold clothing from wholesalers in her new boutique in the Kings Road named Bazaar, initially working solo, and by 1966 she was working with a total of 18 manufacturers. Quant’s design revolutionised fashion from the utilitarian wartime standard of the late 1940s to the energy of the 1950s and 1960s’ cultural shifts. Quant was offering high-end designers for young people in swinging London and defined Britain’s “Swinging Sixties” and influenced youth culture around the … Continue reading Queen of Swinging Sixties dies aged 93

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Cost of Living Crisis

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April is the financial literacy month as tens of millions of people in one of the wealthiest countries in the world are extremely financially vulnerable. Millions more are barely making ends meet with the cost of living crisis, rising prices including food, spiralling energy bills and price of consumer goods and services rose at the fastest rate in four decades in the year to October 2022.  And when it comes to even basic knowledge around money principles and personal finance, we have a long way to go to achieve financial competency. What does this really look like in relation to accessing … Continue reading Cost of Living Crisis

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Illuminating 50m carats of Diamond trade from South Africa to London

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A history of Jewish links in tricontinental diamond trade, following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry.  During the late nineteenth century, tens and thousands of diggers prospectors, merchants, and dealers extracted and shipped over 50 million carats of diamonds from South Africa to London. The primary supplier to the world, South African’s diamond fields became one of the formative sites of modern capitalist production. At each stage of the diamond’s route through the British empire … Continue reading Illuminating 50m carats of Diamond trade from South Africa to London

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Photographic moments

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Affinity is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching the subject via discrete examples, Affinity is first of all about images that have stayed with Irish critic, essayist and memoiris, Brian Dhillon over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation,, when the visual field had shrunk. He delivered a paper on “photographic moments” in literature. A young colleague’s response: “This was all very well but seemed to consist only of connections”, where, he asked , was the argument? Dillion spotted, teased … Continue reading Photographic moments