Having highlighted an article from Geoff Crocker I have been investigating his own operated website. He has a really very good introductory video – which I cannot unfortunately show directly but it is available here at the simple https://www.ubi.org/ I’ve drawn from it what I consider the key points to a Universal basic Income (UBI)… Read more
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Furlough till March
Is very welcome but does it not actually indicate that further lockdowns are likely? Whilst the Harding led test and trace continues to be disastrous, we really have nowhere to go – other than open up – and then lockdown. Surely Asia – and indeed Australasia, shows us that test, trace and isolate is absolutely… Read more
Innocent drinks not so innocent after all
There is some interesting research publicised by the Mail on Line from the University of Colorado showing that we consume forty times as much fructose as we did in the 1700s. Forty times as much fructose in just eleven or twelve generations is an awful lot of change and it unsurprising that most of us… Read more
Economic health – or not
There is an interesting post from Simon Wren Lewis from last month where he suggests that: in the UK Treasury cutting the deficit generally takes priority over the health of the economy He says: The UK Treasury bears some responsibility for the disaster of 2010 austerity, yet it has not accepted or understood the mistake… Read more
The reply to the ‘fat emperor’
Of the previous post – rather longer this time (with thanks to Samuel Johnson): To make it clear I agree with this criticism and have never accepted high rate of false positive statistics at face value. But I especially rate the criticism because it is based on what is happening inside hospitals. If intensive care… Read more
Public Health England is being used…
I’m in contact with someone who works for Public Health England and we seem to have discovered suspicious and dark reasons for failing to disclose the testing figures : Just look at this thread – basics are below: This is government corruption where the unelected Cummings remunerates his pals and where local government doesn’t get… Read more
Local government has been sold down the river..
In spite of the Conservatives ‘levelling up’ there seems very little desire to reinvigorate local control. Indeed this current government seems positively in fear of local control- as would appear to be indicated by their loose rhetoric to ‘do whatever it takes’ yet all local government finds it difficult to get their rightful allocation of… Read more
Do you want our PPE or not?
Wednesday’s open letter to Health Secretary, Matt Hancock deserves highlighting. Hancock is obsessed by buying everything ‘at scale’ but really needs to start thinking as though this was a life threatening emergency rather than a threat to Conservative narrow ideology – whether he obtains the bulk buying discount – or not. Doesn’t he and Johnson… Read more
Personal Protection Equipment – continued
This is from Friday evening 17 April. This short television interview is damning, showing yet again that suppliers have offered to source further quantities but that government has completely failed to take up their offer : Meanwhile in Scotland and Wales: So Scotland and Wales with their devolved governments can manage equipment supplies but England… Read more
Knowing where money comes from is key to keeping healthy…
Unilever has always been a fairly progressive company – although there are certainly arguments about its products and advertising strategy so I was interested to see this piece in this week’s ‘Sunday Times’: Giving hand sanitiser to the NHS is all fine and dandy but I strongly suspect Jope has no idea that this does… Read more