This may be some rather unbelievable conspiracy theory – but with current media and government, I confess none of this would surprise me.. This is the UK/Continent electricity connection, on which the UK has a certain and considerable dependence… Might this mean that it is all part of the narrative of the disaster of the… Read more
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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
Amid all the fuss – what Macron actually said..
It is instructive to watch this French Television piece, which indicates that Macron knows precisely what the United Kingdom is and is not trying to split it up. He is so obviously clear it has to be doubted whether the UK government’s version is related to fact or fantasy – in fact knowing the truth… Read more
Macron thinks, Johnson doesn’t
According to the FT – and amazingly to me: President Emmanuel Macron is moving ahead with a plan to close [the] Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). Macron himself was a previous student of that same ENA, which was started by De Gaulle in 1945. It is in effect a post graduate school for administrators and many… Read more
Project fear turns out to be all too real
As was always suggested, goods transport after leaving the EU is going to be challenging – leaving without a deal will be disastrous. As Logistics UK shows: Then come the end of the year Channel Tunnel safety rules will be in doubt because the Tories cannot stomach any obligations where the European Court of Justice… Read more
The French are doing it so much better…
My piece yesterday bemoaned the arbitrary end of furlough and the complete lack of any clear-sighted direction for the economy. Indeed I now understand that the government’s ill thought out ‘kickstart’ scheme is in fact available only to those able to offer a minimum of 30 placements. No wonder Tesco is in favour and this… Read more
The French will have to build a wall …
If Brexit in fact is actually happening – and so far it seems it is – then unsurprisingly, its spirit is gradually dying of its own contradictions. Immigration is just one area when taking back control means actually relying on the co-operation of the er, French. True we already rely on French co-operation, but that… Read more
‘What matters’ is that equality works
We are currently told that Black Lives Matter which, like all lives, of course they do. And while we now discover that the American policeman accused of murder had had 17 complaints against him, none of which seemed to have changed anything, and, indeed there are also instances of American policemen killing white arrestees with… Read more
Macron much more impressive than our lot, but
Macron is rather impressive in his interview for the FT here – and certainly way more reflective and intelligent than our own political pigmies. And although he has made mistakes he has endeavoured to protect his people – which is rather more than our own government “we cannot protect every business and every household” (why… Read more
The banking party
In the old joke about hell the French were supposed to be the mechanics and the chefs were British. Times have changed; not only are British chefs rather good but so too are the French much better at the ‘mechanics’ of society. The French government’s emergency, state funded, unemployment pay of 84% of normal wages… Read more