One of the things we all need to do is spend our inherited capital wisely, not blow it on trivial consumption. Alas we humans have been squandering like billy-oh the inherited richness of global oil and gas reserves created millions of years ago by decaying forests. It turns out that […]
This describes the current UK problems rather well. Not that that cheers one up.
Your chance to vote for the Total Politics UK Political Blog Top 100. First place and Ten Points for this one of course. After that, up to you.
Where else? But what if your home comes with your job and is intended to be used for public and not party political purposes? I especially like the line that the Treasury paid a Smith Institute bill accidentally. The Treasury pays nothing accidentally. That’s the point of the Treasury.
This sums up exactly what I think. Having worked for the British state for nearly thirty years, I have no faith in its ability to be both operationally efficient and flexible. Not that ‘capitalism’ is necessarily always or invariably better – many large firms operate in highly dysfunctional ways too. […]
Too much Murray v Crawford, eh? Well how about all of us starting a new round of religious riots, this time with Christians and Muslims joining forces against a common cartoon enemy. Meet Jesus and Mo. Then keep clicking. Different.
Help! The world’s financial problems are slowing reform in Cuba! It is "unethical" to raise Cubans’ expectations that they might get a tiny bit of extra money from the state to encourage them to work harder/better. Hmm … No. It is unethical not to do so – to imprison all […]
Most of the Great Questions of our time boil down to a simple proposition. In this case, who most deserves to win the forthcoming Presidential election? Answered!
Is it really this bad? The great changes are not those associated with the replacement of one or other set of people by another. Rather they come when an Idea Dies. In this case we seem to be seeing the utter discrediting of the Idea that by increasing massively state […]
Yesterday’s Wimbledon final left me thinking about the Oxford Exams Finals joke: "Your answer in that paper was excellent!" "So was the question!" Nadal’s play soared to new heights, because Federer’s did too. As they say these days, awesome.
