The gap is four-points wide once more.

Manchester City maintained pressure

on league leaders Liverpool with this victory over 10-man Wolverhampton
Wanderers, refusing to cede the ground recovered with their victory over
Jurgen Klopp's here a fortnight ago.

Guardiola will have known that beating Liverpool in their last Premier League
outing would count for little if City were to suffer the type of unexpected
defeat which almost scuppered their title defence at Christmas. Playing in the
last fixture of the weekend, more than 48 hours after the leaders picked up
three points at Brighton, brought its own additional layer of pressure.

In brief Supermicro is touting whatʼs said to be the “first to market” Intel

Cascade Lake AP Xeon server – and itʼs fitted with Optane DIMM modules to
make in-memory apps, particularly the AI ones, run faster.

Although the Silicon Valley kitmaker claims this month that it is first on the
block with this grade of gear, itʼs not on general sale. For one thing, the
processor isnʼt widely available yet. So, yʼknow, youʼll probably have to take a
ticket and get in line for one of these machines.

Swedish politics have been a strange affair for the last four years. Despite a
strong right-wing majority in parliament the country has had a Social-
democratic and Green government. The reason for this was that the
traditional right has managed, or as some may say, been forced, to keep the
doors closed to the nationalists of the Swedish Democrats party, refusing to
cooperate with them at all. This went to the point where they would even
rather lose votes in Parliament than accept support from the far right. This
very remarkable and positive policy might however now be at end, since at
least two of the four parties of the traditional right have declared themselves
willing to open a dialogue with the far right.

The results show a new situation in Swedish politics, where we can begin to
determine three political blocs instead of the traditional two. To the right a
neoconservative block with the traditional conservatives, the Christian
Democrats and the far right, in the middle the two liberal parties and to the
left Vänsterpartiet, the social democrats and the Greens. Which road the
country now takes depends on whether the two liberal parties are willing to
stay in their alliance with the right, despite influence from the far right, or
whether this is a deal breaker for them and they decide to give their support
to the left instead. If they do there is a good chance of a new social
democratic government, but unfortunately, with less influence for the left,
despite the good election result.

One of todayʼs biggest fads is the ‘bossless companyʼ. According to

proponents of this idea, management is passé. The American management
guru Gary Hamel declared in 2011: ‘First, letʼs fire all the managers … Think of
the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice
presidents devote to supervising the work of others.ʼ Hamel suggests that all
management is waste and, implicitly, that all that managers do is ‘superviseʼ –
both highly dubious claims. But proponents of the bossless company have
other arguments. It seems obvious, they argue, that the 20th-century factory
or office with its army of worker-drones is being replaced by flatter
organisations, peer-to-peer networks, platforms, extreme decentralisation,
worker empowerment, independent contracting, entrepreneurship, and other
forms of worker-led democracy. Transactions between firms or between
workers can be handled seamlessly through electronic interfaces and
managed by the blockchain. Advanced technologies promise real-time access
to coworkers anywhere and to all information relevant to the task at hand.
Coordination can be handled by employees through lateral consultation with
coworkers, and firms can cooperate through electronic means. Why, then, do
we need managers?

En Italie, lʼarrestation de M. Battisti a été unanimement saluée en Italie, à

droite comme à gauche, en particulier parce que lʼancien chef des Prolétaires
armés pour le communisme (PAC) clame son innocence et nʼa jamais exprimé
de remords. “Un criminel et un arrogant”, a ainsi commenté Nicola Zingaretti,
principal candidat à la présidence du Parti démocrate (PD, centre gauche),
tout en réclamant la même fermeté contre les militants fascistes qui donnent
de la voix et du poing en Italie ces derniers temps.

Dans un communiqué dans la nuit, le ministre des Affaires étrangères, Enzo

Moavero Milanesi, a remercié les autorités boliviennes et brésiliennes pour
leur collaboration. Cesare Battisti avait été condamné une première fois au
tournant des années 1980 à 13 ans de prison pour appartenance aux PAC, un
groupuscule dʼextrême gauche particulièrement actif à la fin des années 1970
et considéré comme “terroriste” par Rome.