We learned today that there is a £500m Olympics 'underspend'.

And it got me thinking.

How about that money is split equally between each of London's 7.5m inhabitants? I think it works out at about £65 odd per Londoner. Think of it as a kind of 'thank you' from Wenlock...

A lot of tough decisions will need to be taken in 2012. In politics, in Washington, Brussels, and in business.

Are we ready?

I'm not sure we are. And that's because of the western hemisphere's obsession with 'strategy', and its concomitant eschewal of execution.

These days, everybody wants...

Earlier this week, many hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went out on strike.

Across the UK children weren't educated, trash wasn't collected and hospital patients weren't treated (one of the angles of 'socialised medicine' that wasn't covered during the furious Obama-care debates...)

Naturally, opinion on the...