Michael Baron

Michael Baron is an IT consultant, founder and CEO of Baron Consulting and lectures at some of Australia's leading universities.

Medvedev, the phantom president

The recent Putin-Medvedev announcement has made a lame duck of President Medvedev, who clearly no longer has any significant say in matters political or economic. But did he ever? Were Russians not just going along with the deception, as older children do to get presents from Santa Claus, in whom

By Michael Baron

/ 10 Nov 2011

Public servants and private chats about dumping nuclear waste in West Cumbria

A public consultation is underway on the construction of an underground dump for 70 tonnes of nuclear waste in West Cumbria. Has the decision already been taken during cozy chats in private rooms?

By Michael Baron

/ 8 Oct 2011