About Edward Hugh
Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro.
By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether
Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".
Meanwhile, the BBC is reporting that
The three bombs on London underground trains exploded almost simultaneously, police have said.
Scotland Yard said the attacks took place within 50 seconds of each other despite previously saying they had taken place over a longer time period.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4666591.stm
Yes, David this is an important development. It is difficult to imagine this was done ‘manually’ ie with suicide bombers.
The police are still working away, and I am still biting my fingernails. I don’t smoke, but if I did I would probably be doing a packet an hour at this stage. It is very important they nab these people quickly.
Here’s a trade secret. The best thread on all this is this one. It has reuters, afp and ap. Really live news.
“Police have made no arrests so far over the deadly London bomb attacks, Commander Brian Paddick of the London Metropolitan Police told a news conference. “We have not arrested anyone in connection with the incident,” he said Saturday.