Tag: terrorism

  • Accountancy as terrorism: ‘Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry’

    All over Hollywood, producers and screenwriters are pitching ‘high concept’ film projects that capitalise on current news headlines: urban terrorism, bombing Iraq, and the financial crises caused by accountancy malpractice. In 12 months’ time, our local multiplexes will be swamped…

  • Comment on September 11

    Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the present, their ramifications. No apocalyptic event before September was enacted in full view of almost the whole world. Billions of people watched on television as one of the…

  • September Eleventh: European thoughts

    The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by the most sophisticated high technology is one. As John Bloom, who saw it from below, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, it was the skilled,…