Money as Felix Martin has suggested, seems to give you both freedom and stability. He wonders whether this proposition is possible? After all it used not to be: Barons were for life and inherited that life – and feudal peasants the same. Today’s ‘freedom’ was unknown. Of course today’s freedom includes the freedom to be… Read more
London Underground Information Board tells it like it is…
At least somebody tells it like it is. Probably unfortunate that more are not travelling on the Underground…… Read more
Biden is doing the business..
The FT has reported that the Biden administration is going to go for a $2tn infrastructure programme in order to reshape and stimulate the US economy. This, it is suggested is: …the biggest public investment programme since the creation of the interstate highway system and the Space Race of the 1960s. And including some green… Read more
When you’ve washed up in Britain there’s really nowhere else to go…
As race seems to be the news item of the moment, I thought this, from West Country Bylines an intriguing and informative article. The origins of those of us who have washed up in Britain is probably the most mixed in Europe. That’s what comes of being a small offshore island with no land borders… Read more
Where and what is Monetary Dignity?
We no longer have la corvée, or bridge repairs to undertake once a month. In place of these original societal obligations our society gets things done by spending money. Money is, or ought to be, the equivalent of the common good, which is societies’ method of actually getting things done – for the common good…. Read more
The Covid Unemployment Tracker
Would appear to show that urban areas are the most seriously hit by unemployment – and thereafter the tourist areas of the UK. This looks to me to that the university students’ lifeline has perished – that is most of the decline in jobs are in hospitality. Once more, I fear, our youth, who are,… Read more
‘Global Britain’ is closed
I can understand why many will be mystified why I’m showing a picture of Redruth station in 1902: But it (click to enlarge) simply indicates the amount of emigration from Cornwall at the time – though if you see the later photos in the booking hall of Redruth station nowadays the platforms are actually even… Read more
Losing the youth of the country
For this is what I think the UK government has now done. Of course there are others among us who do not see that countries can lose their youth and thus their futures. Thus, for those who see it – and particularly those that don’t, I think this short summary from the Turkish journalist, Ece… Read more
Astra Zenica could end up proving that there are other ways to do business…
There is little doubt that Public Relations is not Astra Zenica’s strongest point. But is their undertaking (via Oxford University) to sell at cost while the pandemic lasts actually a substantial threat to other vaccine originators? Estimates would appear to suggest appear that Pfizer and Moderna are likely to make $16-17 billion out of their… Read more
Femi is good at this…
Eight minutes of absolute sense:… Read more
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