When the government is insisting that the lights won’t go out, there will be enough food, and not to panic as there is quite enough petrol to go round, you have to why we are having such a conversation. We are not victims of chance. We’re heading into the winter of a ‘perfect storm’: unaffordable… Read more
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Conservatism
Time for tide..
I find it a matter of great surprise that an offshore island surrounded by tidal water somehow manages to largely ignore this potential energy source which is regular and predictable. Wind may not always blow but, until the moon goes awol, tides will always flow. The world’s most powerful tidal turbine is, I read, moored… Read more
Money, Government constitutional change and Local Liberation…
There is an interesting article in the FT that suggests we should be abolishing the House of Lords in order to fix the democratic deficit. Regional inequality, the same article suggests, is entwined with the democratic deficit. I rather thought that the democratic deficit was something that was supposed to be unique to the EU… Read more
The inveterate lier that is now our Prime Minister..
…just cannot help himself. As the lawyer Peter Stefanovic, points out: Biden has I think, like Macron, got the measure of the UK government…… Read more
The problems of logistics…
There was a good article on the supply chain and especially lorry driving in the Guardian a day or two ago. It turns out that : Conditions, as much as pay, underlie the refusal of British workers to do these jobs. Having run a small lorry fleet in the past, that doesn’t a bit surprise… Read more
All the power but no energy
One of the advantages of Brexit was, according to Johnson, that we could abolish VAT on energy bills. Of course we’ve never seen any mention of it since, and now amid spiralling gas prices and allegedly failing wind speeds, and of course a fire in Kent affecting supply of nuclear powered electricity in France –… Read more
Clive Lewis starts to get on the case..
And is beginning to call out how the ‘economic choice’ is used to disguise the political one that is really made (just over a minute):… Read more
Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’..
…Would appear to be code not just for a simple lack of diplomacy but for wonderful and world-beating, world-wide incompetence. They are caught without any preparation for the withdrawal from Afghanistan – even though the foreign office had already reported in January that preparations should be made. The Foreign Secretary of the time had not… Read more
Anxiety is good for you
Said no-one ever. But it’s what, I suggest, government thinks. Unless we are anxious and worried, we, their electorate, allegedly, do not strive for better things…. ….in, of course, a personal endeavour, for, supposedly, the benefit of all society. A bit like Adam Smith’s invisible hand. It is not true – and since most government… Read more
Same circus if a few different, reshuffled clowns
The brightest clown of the lot, who is, after the reshuffle, now to be in charge of housing, had some all too honest words to say on Mrs Thatcher in 1987 (27 seconds): Remarkable frankness – and a frankness which he has learnt to keep under wraps since – especially as he is now in… Read more