In the widely publicised recent article in the FT “Sunak warns of bill to be paid to tackle UK’s ‘exposed’ finances”, there is much talk of him ‘levelling with people’ (this seems to be different from levelling up). He has since talked on much of Sunday’s television about being brutally honest with the public about… Read more
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Peter May
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The austerity hangover
This is a good 4 minute explanation from Prof. Steve Keen on the regularly excellent programme ‘Renegade Inc’:… Read more
Enjoying the Covid roadmap
I rather fear the road map could well involve doing a BoJo at the next roundabout…… Read more
Former Comptroller & Auditor-General to be made a peer
Sir Amyas Morse, who left office in 2019, is the first former Comptroller & Auditor-General to be made a peer since the office was created in 1866. Why is this of interest? Apart from the fact that the post takes in being head of the National Audit Office, which is something we have all heard… Read more
All Economics is necessarily political
Last year as part of the Rethinking Economics movement, Yanis Varoufakis gave a very good lecture to students at the University of Tübingen, usually considered to be in Germany’s top flight – and all conducted in English – on Pluralism in Economics. This is now on Youtube and the whole hour and a half is… Read more
Britain lacks electoral freedom
There is an interesting Medium article written by Charles Leadbeater who is a visiting professor of practice at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he suggests that three books, might set out the basis for post Covid changes: Mission-oriented innovation by Mariana Mazzucato, Doughnut Economics espoused by Kate Raworth and the Deficit… Read more
Ripping up 3 austerity myths
This short video is short and punchy and gets the message across – from Robin Hood tax (whose actual website, oddly, still doesn’t seem to have got the message about tax and spend!)… Read more
Old Cornish joke
In response to the news that many Cornish daffodils are likely to rot in the fields – and speaking to some Cornish friends, some of whom, I’m afraid to say, voted for Brexit – now, too late (often thanks to many of them inexplicably voting Tory too) and much to their general regret, there are… Read more
How it’s going in Kent, and elsewhere
In an indication of the burden of dealing with the consequences of managing Operation Brock, the Kent Resilience Forum said some 6,000 traffic cones, 600 traffic management signs and more than 120 other items of road furniture including CCTV cameras and lights had been installed by Highways England. Meanwhile a mere 33 Police Forces are… Read more