It is interesting that it appears (see the video link that follows) that spontaneous singing for Jeremy Corbyn broke out at the Boardmasters Festival in Newquay. Having spent much of the last weeks in Cornwall (not, I regret, at Boardmasters!) it is clear that like many in the rest of the country the Cornish largely… Read more
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Framing the economy (continued)- Project Household
Having earlier tried to demonstrate that the economy is a construct to enable greater overall prosperity, and that money within it usually serves to derail this value, there is no avoiding the most recurring misinterpretation – that the economy works like any old household. Unless Project Airbus can be seen as a household the economy… Read more
Framing the Economy (continued) – Project Value
It is likely that those of you at the back of the class will have overlooked the fact that in my Project Airbus suggestion for framing the economy money was never mentioned. No need to worry – if the economy is considered as the archetypal joint effort, then money in the economy is just part… Read more
Framing the economy – Project Airbus
A while ago the New Economics Foundation issued a paper on framing the economy. It was really a series of focus groups set up to try to establish how the public see the economy. All very interesting, but not in the end very helpful, simply because there was nothing to build on that would really… Read more
The failing state (continued): Policing in Conservative Britain
The World Economic Forum has issued a rather informative video on violent crime in Scotland – and in particular Glasgow – showing how improvement happened by treating the problem as one of poverty and ill-health. It changed things by looking at violence in a totally different way. Read more: https://t.co/plxcSigdNn pic.twitter.com/XtBKXRKL9p — World Economic Forum… Read more
Am I bovvered?
Or as a recent rather interesting, even illuminating, FT article has it “I can’t be arsed.” The author, an American, now returning to the US after writing FT editorials for a while thinks that “stubbornness is the secret to Britishness.” He thinks Brits are “stubborn, intractable and uppity.” So that could, perhaps explain Brexit, in… Read more
Don’t let the Cons tell you they didn’t know…
Andrew Dickie, formerly of this parish, has kindly provided a pictorial quote to accompany his assertion that my view of Cameron and Osborne’s incompetence in the previous blog was either somewhat rose-tinted or more probably downright misleading. Theirs was not incompetence but was, in short, malevolence. I fear I must stand corrected. It compares… Read more
The incompetence of Osborne and Cameron
An interesting study by Warwick University, reported here in the Huffington Post, shows a remarkably high correlation between the effects of austerity and voting Brexit, as the map below suggests. “In other words, by curtailing the welfare state, austerity has likely activated a broad range of existing economic grievances that have developed over a long… Read more
Because we’re not worth it
I’m probably late to the party but there is a very worrying piece in the Independent where it indicates that court enforcers are to be transferred to Capita. Apparently it will ‘save the taxpayer up to £46m over five years’, so that’s over nine million pounds a year – between us all that’s certainly less… Read more
Sold down the river…
Thought this final tweet of Paul Mason was informative: Paul MasonVerified account @paulmasonnews 10/ Finally my Tory chums. Try saying the words “stockpile food” to a mum hanging around the out-of-date shelf at Tesco at 5pm, waiting to see if she’s going to feed her kids tonight. If it all goes to shit, that’s the moral… Read more