In this space I’ve sometimes mentioned alternative uses of “IFRS” as an acronym, from the In-Furness Railway Series to Individual Forest Rights. Recent events add a grim new instance to the list – Individual Fatality Rates. Such that Twitter now generates a regular stream of this kind of thing: Lockdown on the hope that a…
As a late summer treat and important public service, it’s time now for another round-up (the last one was here) of recent tweets that made mention of IFRS in one way or another, presented here in their original form, with all typos and oddities and occasional obscenities intact. First of all, I thought by now…
It’s time now for another round-up (the last one was here) of recent tweets that made mention of IFRS in one way or another, presented here in their original form, preserving all typos and oddities and occasional obscenities. It’s rather poignant to observe how many of these seem to cite IFRS as a source of anxiety…
To celebrate the arrival of summer, it’s time now for another round-up (the last one was here) of recent tweets that made mention of IFRS in some form, presented here in their original form, with all typos and oddities and occasional obscenities attached. Since I last did this, the Twitter character limit rose from 140 to…
Once or twice a year since I started writing this blog, I’ve periodically posted some real-life tweets which made reference to IFRS in one way or another (most recently here). This has been very obviously a light-hearted exercise, and I’ve made it pretty clear several times that I don’t see Twitter as having much practical…
Among the easier lessons to extract from the Trump presidency (not that any of them were needed, certainly not at such a wretched cost) is the inadequacy of social media, and of Twitter in particular, as a medium for conveying any message more complex than “I like cake”… I’ve written here several times about my…
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