In his masterpiece of a book “Debt- the First 5000 Years”, David Graeber concludes in the final chapters with what is a prediction and a challenge. The prediction is that we are at the early stage of a new age in the history of debt and money which is likely to last 500 or 600… Read more
FT news on handbag economics
This FT article ‘Sunak faces worst hit to UK finances since second world war’ is worth reading – not so much because it indicates that Sunak has got pretty much everything wrong about money that it is possible to get wrong but also because these misunderstandings have lead him to think the rich have to… Read more
New poster campaign
Which is, I suspect, organised by Led by Donkeys – the posters seem to suggest their blackly humorous and hard hitting style, which is, as more and more of us realise, no more than the truth: What they don’t mention is that all this self-inflicted hardship is actually in the middle of a pandemic…… Read more
Corruption at the heart of the state
I don’t usually quote from the Times but even they say – in relation to the recent National Audit Office report: Amid accusations of cronyism, government auditors found that suppliers with links to politicians were ten times more likely to be awarded contracts than those who applied to the Department of Health and Social Care…. Read more
Health is made at home, hospitals are for repairs
Is the wonderful title of an article, concerning his own book, in the ‘New Local’ by Nigel Crisp former CEO of the NHS, and now a crossbench peer. He says: I argue in the book that we need to think about health differently and recognise that health creation plays an important role alongside health services… Read more
Victims of the “the overwhelming might of the state”
This is a quote from Rishi Sunak, who is profiled in ‘Tatler’, which although I feel sure absolutely all our readers subscribe to, I will offer the link nonetheless. When your Chancellor is in ‘Tatler’ you have to realise that he has arrived – even if none of the rest of us has. (The article… Read more
Germany’s Covid – 19 television advert
Seeing how other countries do it is informative and I think the German government might have chosen a line that is rather better than the UK one….. Read more
There goes the brexit we voted for…
Or not! Still it is an amusing couple of minutes and I’m told that the quotes from the Cummings blog are genuine…… Read more
Charities are just another unequal tax
When I discovered that last night’s ‘Children in Need’ television programme had been going for forty years it led me to think about charity. This is really a version of the very Victorian concept of ‘the poor will always be with us’ – because after four decades we still have children in need. So foggy… Read more
A sort of sweet revenge
There is a pretty devastating criticism from Joanna Blythman in the Grocer here on how obesity is driven by carbohydrates but encouragingly: The low-carb diet market is expected to grow by 6.4% by 2027. I do hope it does…The food trade can no longer say that they don’t know about carbohydrate dangers and indeed Dr… Read more
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