I rather fear the road map could well involve doing a BoJo at the next roundabout…… Read more
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Peter May
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
Saving to ensure our talents don’t go to waste – by Keir Starmer
I’ve examined further Keir Starmer’s recent speech conducted without an audience where he said: Today, our moral crusade must be to address the inequalities and injustices that this [Covid] crisis has so brutally exposed. I think this is a very fair point. Keir Starmer suggests it is not just a political question, it is an… Read more
Good Law Project 1 – Government Nil
Good news is currently pretty limited but the High Court decision that the Health Secretary should have published all his PPE contracts. is certainly some. It found that: “The Secretary of State acted unlawfully by failing to comply with the Transparency Policy” and that “there is now no dispute that, in a substantial number of… Read more
Keir Starmer inches towards radical finance ideas
I was certainly delighted that Keir Starmer suggested ‘Recovery bonds’ as a method – in order to, well, recover from the Covid hangover. Yes, most on Progressive Pulse know that government creates money out of thin air so never needs bonds. But others of us might like bonds in order that those savings might earn… Read more