The general conern that time is money is surely true – and all of our times’ is limited. But having read a very long but sometimes interesting, article on Modern Monetary Theory and how the Job Guarantee is less effective than than a Universal Basic Income, I conclude that we have not ever properly considered… Read more
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Peter May
Epitome of Climate Change
I was intrigued by this commentary – which relates not to the normal preoccupations of Progressive Pulse but to what used to be my own preoccupations. Global warming is having a considerable impact on vine growing. Yes, Britain is benefitting to some extent from global climate warming so Pinot Noir, the difficult and sole grape… Read more
Frost’s views?
People may not be aware that Lord Frost, our appalling Brexit Minister, (sorry, Minister for EU relations) used to be in charge of the Scotch Whisky Association – and this is what he said at the time: We must wonder when his damascene conversion to Brexit happened? Or does he just absorb information like a… Read more
Howard League for Penal Reform has excellent ideas
The outgoing Chairwoman of the Howard League for Penal Reform, the appropriately named, Frances Crook, has written an excellent summary of what she is asking of Dominic Raab, the recently arrived Justice Secretary: The Howard League has developed an outline plan and we will build on the ideas in a series of blog postings over… Read more
The imperfect storm
Which is very largely self-inflicted… At least this Labour statement, quoted on Sunday by Sky News, is getting a little closer to the truth of this government: Exhausted by their efforts to hoodwink his supporters at the Conservative Party conference, Johnson is on holiday and Sunak is awol. Government is lurching from crisis to crisis…. Read more
Weekend humour
As it is Saturday, here are a couple of Brexit cartoons which appealed. The first is from the Bangkok Post where, after Brexit, the British Lion has transformed itself into a sweet pussycat. I do hope ‘our friends’ (as Johnson always says) in the European Research Group are impressed… And then there is this oh… Read more
The purpose of the state
It seems to me that this is more and more of a problem as our current government appears to be of the opinion that in fact the state has little, or even, no purpose. In spite of the fact that they are in charge of it. Clearly the Johnson government like being in charge because… Read more
Johnson thinks wages must go up – but not for nurses
Who are balloting for strike action. One has to ‘admire’ the shear bravado of taking hold of the forecast shortages that were denounced by Johnson as nonsense and ‘project fear’ prior to Brexit, and repackaging them as actually part of the Conservative grand plan to reform the economy. Business was supposed to anticipate these problems… Read more
Thinking about status
This is a provocatively good article on ‘status’ on the Unherd website: Status is extremely important to wellbeing, so much so that it can have a profound effect on our health. People more successful in their careers tend to live longer, even taking into account confounders like smoking. The demoralising feeling of lower social status… Read more
Brexit going too well..
..in Northern Ireland. A couple of minutes of explanation: Of course, we couldn’t possibly have a part of the UK avoiding the Tory dystopian chaos – and where practicality might, for once, trump ideology – could we? As the Byline Times points out: Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, there is an interesting control experiment occurring as… Read more