Great thinkers on line

The one child policy in China has resulted in a deficit of one hundred million women. A different ‘one boy’ policy would have saved millions of lives, and provided a balanced and declining population.

Where election candidates are within less than five per cent of each other in votes, each should serve half the term. In the most recent Mexican presidential election, the difference was 0.56 per cent.  

Not my ideas (I wish …) but Edward de Bono’s.  De Bono, originator of lateral thinking, co-opetition, Six Thinking Hats, the CoRT method for teaching thinking to children, has just announced:

The World Council For New Thinking.  More information at the snappily-named domain  http://www.worldcouncilfornewthinking.org