Is really simply an exercise in accounting. I’d suggest that this accounting really serves little useful purpose – and its only actual purpose is to establish – in crudely counting out and counting back – some handle on how much government is spending into the economy and so how much needs to be taxed back…. Read more
The Old Oak and government failure…
I’ve been recently missing because I went to see the last local screening of Ken Loach’s film ‘The Old Oak’. As ever, it was a very difficult watch during which you didn’t know whether to laugh or cry – and probably did both. I’ve heard reviewers say it was about racism. In my view it… Read more
The biggest worry in life is financial, isn’t it?
This quote from a New Economics Foundation report on the undermining influence of the inadequate social security now provided in Britain today and from woman receiving both Universal Credit and the Disabled Living Allowance just shows how enslaved British citizens are by finance. The biggest worry in life is financial, isn’t it? So, to know… Read more
No theocratic ethno-states is how its got to be…
A serendipitous discovery of interesting reflections for a couple of minutes from I don’t know who… All in all I rather agree – the vast majority of states are indeed not theocracies and accept some diversity. Leaving aside Israel (one in five of whose citizens are in fact Arab) the only exceptions I can think… Read more
An interesting letter to the Washington Post
Linked here – text below:… Read more
Are physician associates actually more about strike-breaking?
Certainly this Commons answer from the Health Secretary would appear to suggest so. It seems that there really is no level to which a Tory will not stoop… Decidedly worrying…. Read more
How news media works…
Two minutes of not what you thought:… Read more
True and Fair – or Just Normal? And training to inform…
Interesting stuff from Gena Millar’s manifesto for the ‘True and Fair Party’, a representative of whom is fighting in today’s Mid Bedfordshire by-election (click to enlarge): For me there are lots of good ideas here… Yet should MP’s go on a training course? Seems to me that they should – and that should probably be… Read more
The rich don’t have the money we need – or the growth…
An FT article about whether we should care when the rich threaten to leave when they are lined up to pay more tax – or pretty much any other obligation – wryly concludes: Indeed, one of the oft-made comments about people who actually do follow up on their threats and go into tax exile is… Read more
A lovely idea on watercos!
When they are fined for pollution they are obliged to pay by issuing more voting share capital, which they must surrender to government: The potential size and quantity of these fines means that they would be likely to return to government control in short order – driven by the offending companies’ very own incompetent and… Read more
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