I think that we should really take this American graphic on board. They, unlike the UK, have lots of factory farms and their normal method of raising livestock is to finish them by fattening them on grain. And isn’t it funny how everyone knows this but does not seem to recognise that eating grain is… Read more
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Advice for Mr Farage…
There is a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on Immigration in Hungary. As Jonathan Portes would say, immigrants have to ‘want to come to your country’. But to Hungary? With a declining population and a prosperous EU economy the Oxford educated (yes, really) Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has little choice. It seems… Read more
The Divine Right of Government
In difficult times, I’m being conceited enough to suggest that this [necessarily edited] post on Taxresearch.co.uk is worth emphasising…. I doubt very much whether the EU would wish to get involved in the UK constitutional arrangements. I’d suggest they are far more likely to give us a unilateral extension to enable us to sort it… Read more
The importance of the Speaker
John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has now annouced by the 31 October he will be the ex Speaker. I wonder whether this will affect Andrea Leadsom’s plan to put up a candidiate in his seat. Although I hold no brief for Ms Leadsom it does seem to me it is another… Read more
‘Public’ schools
Foreigners are puzzled why citizens in the UK have to pay to attend a ‘public’ school. I tell them, it is the same reason why you need to use a knife and fork to eat a banana! Melissa Benn has written in the Guardian today that our ‘public’ school system is “morally rotten”. I might… Read more
Brexit without end
I have sympathy with the ‘Deltapoll’ quoted here, where 2049 people (I suspect that must have been the maximum number of UK adults they could persuade to answer…) when asked the really quite logical question “Do you think Brexit will ever end?” 41%, the majority, thought it would, 35% thought it wouldn’t and 24% didn’t… Read more
The Johnson premiership is just madcap dishonesty
The Conservatives want to take back control. But that control is, it seems, not for us it is of us. We learn (remarkably via the Times) that Johnson’s preferred election date of October 15 was chosen as it was likely to restrict the number of students voting because it was so soon after the start… Read more
Selling by the left
I confess I am not usually a fan of Jacobin, which often seems to me, to overstate its case. However there is an interesting article here where I have some considerable sympathy. The article points out the initial joy of the Barrack Obama election success. The author starts: I came to my politics the way most… Read more
Does Cummings know about democracy?
I’ve no doubt Dominic Cummings (or as the hashtag on Twitter goes: #shortcummings) is intelligent, but it seems to me he is an evident sociopath. The means seem to justify the ends. Thus short termism reigns. Brexit, even if achieved – deal or no deal – will not of course not be the end, just… Read more
Asleep on the job?
Or is he perhaps, dreaming of foodbanks?… Read more