Update: Blog Trends

I haven't blogged recently because my last post on Nigel Farage winning the Clacton by-election was being viewed so many times. Funnily enough, not that many people reading in the UK itself. Here's the list of countries reading me over the last seven days. They are in order, most viewed to least viewed, top 10:

United States

Brazil

Seychelles

France

India

Germany

Argentina

Vietnam

Mexico

Philippines

Clearly, people could be using VPNs much more than they used to, hence Seychelles popping up. Don't read too much into it, but I think one conclusion is that people are interested in the emergence of centre-right politics.

I think a shift is occurring worldwide, call it a revolution if you like. The move is away from what is described as the Uni-party or the blob. Professional middle manager politicians are being rejected and incoming are common-sense populists.

China Taking Over

I'm from the world of concrete and so I know this to be true: in the last three years China has poured more concrete than the US poured over the hundred years of the twentieth century.

The world is turning on its axis, China is now ascendant.

And when it comes to universities, China rules. We'll all need to start learning Chinese as much of their research is in that language. Heh, I can read a little Japanese so I am at least familiar with Chinese characters. You know the type of thing, Chinese on the page looks like a chicken walked into a pot of ink and then wandered across the page. The good part of knowing this is that at least it's not as hard as English to learn.