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Oliver Rivers

Oliver Rivers

The NHS attack: where were GCHQ?

The cyberattack on the NHS raises some questions about the dysfunctionality of our security services which, if I were an investigative…

May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

Oliver Rivers

London mayoral election number crunching

Here’s a bit of analysis of second preference voting in the London mayoral election, which confirms that Goldsmith did very badly, and…

May 13, 2016

London mayoral election number crunching

May 13, 2016

Oliver Rivers

Merkel, Böhmermann, Erdoğan

On 31st March Jan Böhmermann, a German comic, read out a poem on TV insulting Erdoğan (the Turkish president has sex with sheep and goats…

Apr 16, 2016

Apr 16, 2016

Oliver Rivers

Steel manufacturing accounts for 0.1%

Dominic Lawson (apologies for linking to the Mail), who doubts the reality of man-made climate change, blames steel’s difficulties on high…

Apr 1, 2016

Apr 1, 2016

Oliver Rivers

Pelléas et Mélisande, Rattle/Sellars.

Gerhaher (Pelléas) & Finley (Golaud) were really fine, and the Pelléas/Golaud relationship was the most successful aspect of the staging…

Jan 10, 2016

Jan 10, 2016

Oliver Rivers

In memoriam

So much of his own music was concerned with death, annihilation (annihilation of the self through delirium) or extinction (hence the…

Jan 6, 2016

Jan 6, 2016

Oliver Rivers

I finished Satin Island, Tom McCarthy’s novel about an anthropologist (“U”) who works for a…

May 31, 2015

May 31, 2015

Oliver Rivers

Oliver Rivers

Music, economics, politics. Work/invest: @tapdaq, @kammandsons. Work: @Britdoc. Invest: @designmynight. Trustee: @LegalActionGrp, @Poetry_London. My views.

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