The Health Service Journal has reported that details of those instructed to self isolate will be available to the police. Boris Johnson thinks we are a freedom loving people. His government apparently doesn’t. The people imparting this information will be Data Breach Dido Harding’s test and trace outfit that costs billions but has never ever… Read more
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Is Nye Bevan right?
So the Australia type deal that Britain will flourish under, according to Johnson, is a trade deal that, in fact, Australia is trying to actually improve in the already existing trade talks with the EU, where both sides have agreed that: The discussions confirmed a shared commitment to rules-based trade as well as to helping… Read more
Now no money left
At last, are we getting to the realisation that money is created by government will – or as currently, whim? I admire Andy Burnham’s stand. As he says ‘please remember: GM-based businesses have been under these restrictions for 10 weeks with no support.’ So he admits his realisation has come rather late. It looks as… 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
Johnson’s ongoing strategic partner
Without a properly functioning Find, test, trace and isolate system Britain will for ever be struggling from lockdown to lockdown to keep the Covid-19 pandemic from accelerating. We now know that Serco’s tracing system traces only about two thirds of contacts and also often takes longer than 48 hours to communicate results. In my view… Read more
Fatima – dancing in cyber
This was some of the government advice on retraining: And this (apologies for the language) a spoof: and this, a wonderful poem, which I’m sure we can all appreciate: Steve Pottinger tweets here…. Read more
MMT and Tax : a new narrative – A guest post by Jim Osborne
I have been arguing within the Scottish Currency Group recently, through a number of OPs and comments, that the MMT narrative about taxation is incomplete and presents a serious weakness in the MMT proposition. I want to explain why this weakness needs to be addressed. MMT is a description of what actually happens in the… Read more
Angels to lose their American share
I was fascinated that there is an American startup called Bespoken Spirits that aims to “to precisely tailor spirits for aroma, color, and taste in just days.“ This relies on analysing the oak flavours required to flavour the spirit and thus compress the normal ageing process – and hence also the angels’ share – from… Read more
The real Metropiltan elite:
All looks like a pretty incestuous echo chamber to me. No wonder both strategy and ideas are lacking…. Read more
Is rebellion imminent?
This moving piece from Channel 4 news and from a real small employer (rather than a grasping rentier capitalist) correctly explains why so many are completely adrift in the government’s occasional, random and unscientific lockdowns. For sure the science is uncertain – but the money creation to ensure both the lady in the interview and… Read more