This really must have struck a chord as, indeed it should.. with the European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator: As David Allen Green has remarked, taking back control of our borders seems to mean resiting them by setting up border control in Kent – fully policed by criminal sanctions for lorry drivers. While the Tudors famously lost… Read more
Project fear turns out to be all too real
As was always suggested, goods transport after leaving the EU is going to be challenging – leaving without a deal will be disastrous. As Logistics UK shows: Then come the end of the year Channel Tunnel safety rules will be in doubt because the Tories cannot stomach any obligations where the European Court of Justice… Read more
Understanding the right wing mind – 6
This, I understand was sent to radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show and regrettably is the simple truth: I’m afraid our right wing rulers seem disinclined to think and when they do it is very, very, little…. Read more
‘Sheltering’ the Economy…
“Save lives, protect the NHS” and “shelter the economy” is, according to Laura Kuenssberg (and I’m sure Progressive Pulse readers will be well aware that I read no-one else) what Johnson now wants to do. It is ‘shelter the economy’ that I find more than usually fantastical. It is as though the economy were not… Read more
Victorian government Public Health
I have looked at at a BBC Factcheck on Covid -19 testing, which is certainly interesting, and seems to put Britain near the top in Europe – for testing. Fine, for Britain, which, as the cradle of Public Health, unsurprisingly it should be. The originator of the industrial revolution really should know all about it……. Read more
Certainly our government’s intelligence seems to be artificial
Daniel Susskind ‘s book ‘A World Without Work rightly asks how do we share our combined income when clearly we can certainly no longer rely on ‘the market’ to organise its allocation. If indeed we ever could. And we know that making an economic contribution through gainful employment is frequently and for a significant minority,… Read more
Testing….testing… immigration…
The Deloitte/Serco test and trace is a great success – a world class success no doubt. Except that test isn’t working and neither is trace. And of course a mere 0.75 million people a day cannot even get an appointment…. The incompetents are firmly in charge…. Read more
The Mental illness of current British politics
There is an impressive article in the ‘i’ from Ian Dunt on the everyday dissembling of Johnson and his – and actually our – government. What we’re seeing here is not standard-issue political cynicism. It is something qualitatively different: a conscious effort to eradicate the notion of objective truth as an operating principle in British… Read more
Convenience Foods
I’ll keep this short – but I would recommend this article in ‘The Grocer’ by food journalist, Joanna Blythman ‘Reformulation does not solve the problem of processed convenience foods.’ She is absolutely spot on – reducing a few select ingredients in what might be called ‘confected’ food, is useless. We need people to cook. And… Read more
Being wanted – even if only by the Police
The piece below is characteristically dishonest from Johnson – not only because he says he is investing in policing when he supported and was a member of a government that actually (should we say?) defunded the Police. However since he has promised to ‘refund’ them, then by all accounts there are now an extra 4,000… Read more
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