I stumbled across this on twitter which I thought an excellent indication of where our government currently sits: This is the vacuousness of identity politics demonstrated, oh so delightfully……. 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
We should never have left – but there’s an easy return…
I’ve signed the petition to rejoin the EU – because, well, we should never have left*. But we have. Given that; Labour has to be fervently encouraged – and to encourage the electorate – to rejoin the single market and also the customs union. This would be a unilateral UK decision. Then, once we are… Read more
Universal Basic Income (or Capital) plus…
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
Pipe dreams – ‘ours’ and ‘theirs’
Geoff Crocker has written an interesting piece in Prospect Magazine entitled “How the virus could kill off our damaging debt delusions.” Even if I would prefer the word ‘should’ in place of the ‘could’ in the headline, it is still encouraging to see someone else realise that government is borrowing from itself. The pipe dream… Read more
Bankers’ currency and Conservative deceptions
I enjoyed Jim Osborne‘s comment mentioning what he called “bankers’ currency”. Clearly bankers’ currency is what all currency now is. The only ‘recent’ example of currency that was not (but was in fact the Treasury’s rather than the bankers’) is the short-lived Bradbury’s. It showed that we do not actually need the bankers to produce… Read more
The Big Illusion…
Anne Rovan is Europe correspondent for the conservative French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ and has just tweeted: Only just over a month to go… I have to wonder whether Brexiter Redwood… will get his (in this case eminently reasonable) wish before Barnier spills the beans……. Read more
Democratic power?
Tony Benn used to say that Democracy transferred power from the wallet to the ballot. The Tories have succeeded in transferring it back again. They work for their funders. They have literally no other ideas – big or small. Their only big idea, Thatcherism, has turned out not to have worked that well, so keeping… Read more
Does this seem currently rather appropriate?
This was of course a trailer from the Corbyn era prior to the lost election. In my view, then as now, it is still a sentiment that is entirely appropriate. Perhaps Conservative techniques are still working and invoking identity politics will keep us opposing each other rather than the real problem. Or, actually, we need… Read more
From the right, quick gaslighting …
This from Brendan May, (as far as I’m aware – no relation): Of course this was no gaslighting. But it does demonstrate the same policy-free vacuousness that we currently have to endure, where we get flagshagging while not ending food poverty and statue protection and not greater investment in education… We are still seemingly relaxing… Read more
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