The World Economic Forum has issued a rather informative video on violent crime in Scotland – and in particular Glasgow – showing how improvement happened by treating the problem as one of poverty and ill-health. It changed things by looking at violence in a totally different way. Read more: https://t.co/plxcSigdNn pic.twitter.com/XtBKXRKL9p — World Economic Forum… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
Am I bovvered?
Or as a recent rather interesting, even illuminating, FT article has it “I can’t be arsed.” The author, an American, now returning to the US after writing FT editorials for a while thinks that “stubbornness is the secret to Britishness.” He thinks Brits are “stubborn, intractable and uppity.” So that could, perhaps explain Brexit, in… Read more
Don’t let the Cons tell you they didn’t know…
Andrew Dickie, formerly of this parish, has kindly provided a pictorial quote to accompany his assertion that my view of Cameron and Osborne’s incompetence in the previous blog was either somewhat rose-tinted or more probably downright misleading. Theirs was not incompetence but was, in short, malevolence. I fear I must stand corrected. It compares… Read more
The incompetence of Osborne and Cameron
An interesting study by Warwick University, reported here in the Huffington Post, shows a remarkably high correlation between the effects of austerity and voting Brexit, as the map below suggests. “In other words, by curtailing the welfare state, austerity has likely activated a broad range of existing economic grievances that have developed over a long… Read more
Brexit End Points
Introduction One interesting aspect of the unfolding of Brexit has been the emergence of strong voices with a depth of analysis and understanding of the process. There are too many to mention, but these include Prof Chris Grey (Brexit Blog), David Alan Green (FT and Jack of Kent), Prof Richard Murphy (TRUK), Ian Dunt… Read more
Sold down the river…
Thought this final tweet of Paul Mason was informative: Paul MasonVerified account @paulmasonnews 10/ Finally my Tory chums. Try saying the words “stockpile food” to a mum hanging around the out-of-date shelf at Tesco at 5pm, waiting to see if she’s going to feed her kids tonight. If it all goes to shit, that’s the moral… Read more
The failing state: Conservative Britain
This depressing graph from the ONS shows that UK households’ outgoings have surpassed their income for the first time since 1988 (that year was in fact only just in negative territory). These figures show that in 2017 the average household experienced a £900 shortfall. Yet nowhere in the media does this have much prominence and… Read more
‘Trafficking in unreality’: Trump takes the US further down the road to authoritarianism
Perhaps understandably the UK media’s daily reporting on Donald Trump was dominated yesterday (Wednesday) by the release of a recording of a conversation between Trump and his (ex) personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The recording provided irrefutable evidence that Trump has been lying since before the Presidential election about what he did or did not know… Read more
This looks like the final Conservative Brexit plan
(You can ignore the sound – the effect is the same) pic.twitter.com/TD2Adb3T36 — July 19, 2018 I’m sure that the car is travelling in the direction of the cliff edge…… Read more
TheFullBrexit.Com
Am I really offering a link to a Brexit site? Yes, I fear, I really am! And just because, whilst I do think they have the best of intentions, they are not correct. They suggest – and this is probably true – that the collapse of UKIP shows that people are prepared to accept the… Read more