The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
David Willetts: A pragmatist, and yet passionate believer in social responsibility and localism: what better model for modern Conservatives?
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
He was as precocious as they come. The idea of practicing Law left him feeling stale and useless. He tried and failed quite young in Business and Art. Writer-thinker-politician Benjamin Disraeli felt most alive when he was doing something both...
bankervision.typepad.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of the tools of statistics. “There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics” said Benjamin Disraeli in a particularly famous diatribe about the misuse of mathematical statements...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
WHEN Benjamin Disraeli put statistics in the same category as lies and damned lies, he might have been foretelling present-day football's pre-occupation with figures that
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Last week, the cultural website Nextbook celebrated the release of Benjamin Disraeli and Resurrecting Hebrew , the ninth and tenth books in its acclaimed Jewish Encounters series (launched as a co-venture with Schocken Books in 2005). The imprint achieved another milestone this summer with the publication of paperback editions of the first two books in the series, The Life of David and...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... The Making of Benjamin Disraeli: Adam Kirsch's New Biography . The composer Felix Mendelssohn had a similar problem. He addressed it in his oratorios Elijah and St. Paul . Also, Isaac Disraeli wrote a very interesting essay called The Man of One Book .
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Chris Ciovacco submits: The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes." --Benjamin Disraeli In a difficult time for investors, it is refreshing to report a ray of hope in the charts below. In addition to the positive technical developments, two fundamental developments may help the market find an intermediate bottom: Complete Story »
The Terriorists (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Monday, September 22, 2008It's a Seal, It's a Plane, It's… …? 130 years ago another politician coined the perfect description of Barack Obama: "A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance ofhis own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can atall times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." Benjamin...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
... opposition. ConservativeHome noted that in fact it was a Conservative government under Benjamin Disraeli which extended the vote to working men in 1867 - decades before the Labour Party was formed. It was also a Liberal/Conservative National Government that gave women over the age of 30 the vote in 1918 and a Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin that in 1928 established an...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
... been bitterly opposed by the Conservative Party". In fact, it was a Conservative government under Benjamin Disraeli which extended the vote to working men in 1867 -decades before the Labour Party was formed. It was also a Liberal/Conservative National Government that gave women over the age of 30 the vote in 1918 and a Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin that in 1928 established...
My left wing (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
(A piece I wrote for my local bird cage liner. Hope they publish it!) Mark Twain attributed the observation that there are three kinds of lies in politics -Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics to England's Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Were Disreli alive today he might change that phrase to Lies, McCain's Lies and Gallup's Statistics. On the subject of white lies or exaggerations...
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. This classic line from Benjamin Disraeli sums up the complexity that voters face as they try to parse the talking points coming out of the McCain and Obama campaigns. Just what does it mean that the Arizona senator voted with Bush 90 percent of his time in the Senate? The task of...
TidBITS (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Benjamin Disraeli famously said, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistics." I certainly can't quibble with the sentiment, but just about the only time we get any numbers out of Apple at all is when Steve Jobs shares them on stage at an Apple event. Of course, Steve shares only good numbers, and even then, only numbers that support what he's about to announce. There's...
Ask And Ye Shall Receive (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
What the blogosphere really needs more of are tripped out post-adolescents with no discernible responsibilities or life experiences . Benjamin Disraeli once said, "Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe." The best bloggers are also often the best observers. They recount, with vivid detail, life's rich pageant. Genius, my dear, you are not. But, we shall still observe and...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli. Those in the drivers seat of today's brands, be it branding consultants, advertisers or brand managers need to shift their definition of brand consistency should they wish to gain real mindshare and resulting profit.
