At long last we are starting to be honest about the national indebtedness issues we face: The true scale of Britain’s national indebtedness was laid bare by the Office for National Statistics yesterday: almost £4 trillion, or £4,000bn, about four times higher than previously acknowledged. It quantifies the burden that […]
Crawf Minor (Lower Sixth) is in hot pursuit of several Maths A-Levels here in the UK. All of which reminds me that once upon a long lost time I could pick my way through the mysteries of cos and sin and even on a good day tan. Not to forget […]
Is neatly hosted by Philobiblon. Who leads us to two stories of state-sponsored appallingness here in England. The tale of the non-equipped ambulance. And the grotesque behaviour of Hackney Council. Yes, we pay taxes so that these people can get paid to treat us with contempt.
This material is whizzing around the web – an exchange of letters in the Times from way back in 1932 between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek on how best to respond to huge economic problems. The clarity of their respective arguments is striking. I go with Hayek, who warns […]
Snooping around the Internet I found this tired old list of supposed MI6 spy Ambassadors. With my own name on it! Oooo – the frisson of excitement.
I hope to be back to normal again soon, as I have been preoccupied this week trying (a) to earn money, and (b) to sort out our proposed house sale as we move from lofty palatial Ambassadorial Crawford Towers to something more, hem affordable and compatible with our post-Ambassadorial much […]
This site always praises good technique. So let’s hear it for the FBI, who have done a most impressive number on cracking open a sophisticated Russian spy ring. Most of the lurid media reports this morning simply rehash what is in the US Justice Department published material. Check out the […]
The latest BBRU is pinkly hosted by Trixy. It’s notable for a link to a profoundly depressing link to a piece noting the OK contents of the free condom device at the British Embassy in Hanoi. Have these people no taste?
Here is a must-read piece at Samizdata, which looks at a seemingly novel phenomenon, namely huge boosts to the money supply in the USA but no signs of price inflation. How can that be? Because the state in effect is bribing banks not to lend: So to put this thumbnail […]
Come on, readers, wherever you may be on the planet, but esp in the UK. We urgently need a networked generosity swarm effect here. Time to chip in for a good cause. Update: many thanks to those who have pledged a little something to Elly. As Instapundit says, Faster please
