Society
Same circus if a few different, reshuffled clowns
The brightest clown of the lot, who is, after the reshuffle, now to be in charge of housing, had some all too honest words to say on Mrs Thatcher in 1987 (27 seconds): Remarkable frankness – and a frankness which he has learnt to keep under wraps since – especially as he is now in... Read more
One way of telling them…
This is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez at that hang-out of the wealthy, the recent New York Gala Fashion Show:... Read more
What about the workers?
The fact that the HMRC thinks that the recent, proposed National Insurance rises could lead to the breakdown of struggling families means at least that somebody is thinking of them, even if, remarkably, it is only the UK’s tax authority. (Government seem to have ceased to take either workers or struggling families into account.) I... Read more
Beware of abstract nouns!
I like the ‘Stumbling and Mumbling’ blog and its author, Chris Dillow has pointed out how, what he calls the politics of abstraction is so undermining.. Personally I’d prefer to call these problems abstract nouns. But they are broadly the same… Thus we had the war on terror – when the only war was actually... Read more
‘Mere’ competition to Aldi and Lidl?
I am late to this – I confess I did not realise they had already opened – but MERE is a Russian discounter and the Grocer has interesting details. (Open the link in private mode if it doesn’t work initially). This is no frills with a vengeance and described as “amazing value for money”. The... Read more
The Collapse Of Complex Societies
All the signs are present that the empire is far more vulnerable than we think.
So is our societal decline preordained or will we be the first civilisation to cheat the inevitable?
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The Collapse Of Complex Societies
All the signs are present that the empire is far more vulnerable than we think.
So is our societal decline preordained or will we be the first civilisation to cheat the inevitable?
The post The Collapse Of Complex Societies appeared first on Renegade Inc.
Traditional lefty economists….
I think that the desire for safe assets should be a factor influencing any fiscal rule.. So says Simon Wren Lewis. To me (but possibly not him) those basic safe assets are a proper functioning state with the rule of law, resources to do things, food to produce to feed everyone and probably some earth... Read more
Coffee prices…
I did enjoy this. While the British will still generally apologise to the door they bump in to, the French are, I suggest often prone to peremtoriness – so this, from a bar in Normandy much appeals: That is a tariff I think I’d be quite happy with, thank you very much – or even... Read more
Northern entitlement…
I just cannot believe that Shapps is tweeting this… ‘Re-purposed’ Northern Rail carriages seem to be fine for the North – I’m wondering would they be equally good as a classroom in Surrey? Or even perhaps, his own constituency of Welwyn and Hatfield? Maybe we could begin to realise that the fact that we have... Read more