This time from criminal barristers, who are supposedly striking about legal aid fees. They are – but of course the Crown Prosecution Service fishes in the same pool for its own criminal barristers and when their numbers are so depleted as a result of the poor pay for defending, then the prosecution too has problems…. Read more
Meet the Peecyclers
Is a headline I have unashamedly stolen form the New York Times. Their article actually concerns fertiliser – a product now under suspicion because it is fossil fuel based and Russia produces lots of it. The article suggests that human urea could have a substantial part in replacing it. Now I know the article is… Read more
Brexit Benefits
In case people have not seen the ‘New European’ this was their front page… I suggest there is absolutely nothing to add…… Read more
Labour’s Black Horse
I much regret that apparently, according to Aaron Bastani’s Novara Media: I’m most worried about the finance lobby. What the hell is Labour thinking of? Why is it necessary? Why do Lloyds want to gift Labour anything? It is completely suspect and also further pollutes our democracy. But of course, while we are a two… Read more
The RMT have the measure of our neoliberal masters.
Well, well. The RMT is on to money borrowing as well… As Eddie Dempsey so succinctly suggests, all RMT staff must take the hit because Network Rail cannot afford not to pay the banks.. The bailed out banking lobby is winning again – unless, we, like the RMT understand the system… We have to hope… Read more
Could the money message learn from Mick Lynch?
This is a compilation of Mick Lynch’s interviews, which gives the general idea of the technique… Skip if you already know it.. The folksy straight talking style which does not accept many of the parameters of the framing of the question posed would fit the bill for talking about money admirably. Calling the Conservatives liars… Read more
Corroding Democracy..
There is a very interesting article in the Byline Times by the curiously named Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from her diplomatic American post over Brexit. She has written a mea culpa (do please read it all) and concludes: The uncomfortable truth is that it is not just this Government which lies, though it has… Read more
Brexit ‘benefits’ beginning to be pointed out…
There is remarkable agreement on the Brexit disadvantages – if not disasters – from both commerce and also the FT, who say: The UK is lagging behind the rest of the G7 in terms of trade recovery after the pandemic; business investment, seen by Johnson and Sunak as the panacea to a poor growth rate,… Read more
RMT’s media lessons
I’m rather impressed with RMT’s media approach. First its leader gets asked on Sky News what he will do when agency workers are recruited (if only they could find any) to take his members’ jobs. And he says picket the premises. Sky news was obviously hinting at violence and so he gets asked how he… Read more
Priti Patel’s immigration policy – back to the future
This is spot on: Even her constituency has been subject to the blue plaque treatment…… Read more
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