During the Brexit referendum, before the Progressive Pulse site was set up, many of my comments were on Prof Richard Murphy’s TRUK site. This was my thinking on the time-line and evolving predictions for the future. What I Got Right. The Referendum would result in a Leave victory. The Referendum was a horror show, with… Read more
Klannish…
Somebody had to do it – and perhaps I shouldn’t – but I thought this very amusing!… Read more
If you are not at the table you are on the menu
There is an excellent post on twitter from the The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) – I’d like to suggest a few key lines : Put this into practice for a moment: Trump and the EU are negotiating the successor to TTIP. If the UK leaves with May’s deal on 12 April, then the… Read more
Middle class ‘Bregretters’?
A BBC Newsnight piece (I never watch it – so for those that do, apologies) by the ever excellent Danny Dorling, which is just over 4 minutes and suggests that the drivers of Brexit are in fact the middle class – and, moreover, half of them were from the South of England. This is definitely… Read more
Post-War Housing in Northern Ireland – a guest post by Michael Green
In the early 1920s, my grandfather’s business failed, so that my father had to leave school and abandon his ambition of attending university. He joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service as a Junior Clerk. Nearly 50 years later he retired as a Permanent Secretary. He died fairly soon after retiring, and when going through his… Read more
Demographic Reversal in These Islands
Introduction Over the past century two ratios which have been positive, the ratio of Irish in the UK and visa versa and the ratio of Protestants to Catholics in Northern Ireland, are likely to invert. Currently there are more Irish in the UK and more Protestants in Northern Ireland than visa versa. Irish in the… Read more
The Executive Unbound
I have just learned that Theresa May says she will not be bound by the indicative votes, about now, taking place in Parliament. Really? The Executive is not above the Legislature – in the UK constitution, it is part of it. And perhaps more importantly it is subject to it. The key to Legislature, which… Read more
When even George Osborne thinks you’re nuts:
According to Dawn Butler MP: On the 212th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade and 7 days since The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination it’s remarkable that a group of senior Tories have allowed themselves to be named after leaders of the Klu Klux Klan. And Osborne agrees! I struggle… Read more
Allies of Positive Money have actually educated the BBC here:
This is one area, at least where Positive Money can create progress. Let us at least ensure, between us all, that ‘loans are created by bank deposits’ doesn’t get repeated: We have, regrettably a way to go on the BBC’s ideas on Money Creation……. Read more
No Deal is not just self harm on a massive scale – it is tyranny
There is a very discouraging graphic from Giordano Mion, a professor of economy at the University of Sussex, and Dominic Ponattu, a researcher at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany: which is suitably dark – the nearest to dark (apart from the sea) indicates the worst impact of Brexit. Funny how the UK – and even… Read more
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