£100,000 In Grenfell Tower Fraud – Icebergs And Tips Come To Mind
On the one hand we've got the official Grenfell Tower inquiry going on. Apparently fact discovery is aided by days and days of people...
Jane Jacobs Had An Interesting Thing To Say About Town Planning – Don’t
As we all know there's a lot of handwringing over our High Streets. They're being hollowed out by ever rising rents, excessive business rates...
Paying for Social Care
There is a psychological fact that prevents a sensible economic solution to the problem of paying for social care. It is that people in...
With Government, The Poison Is The Dose
Let's look at the Rahn Curve.
It tells us that a government should ideally absorb a certain percentage of the GDP of its nation, because...
Ivan the Terrible
Quality hitmen, these Russians.
I mean, we can all presumably accept that in amongst the rough and tumble of high stakes geopolitics, any given nation...
What Really Drives The Bastards Batty
The cliche is that it's personal ambition that propels most politicians. Unfortunately, I think it's true, at least for the biggest of them. What...
Hurrah To Dodd Frank Reform, Boo! To Non-Repeal
The real complaint about Dodd Frank isn't the manner in which it did a bit of regulating the financial sector in the US. Sure,...
These People Are Losing Their Minds Over Trump And Russia
Yes, it's OK, we get it. Progressives are simply incandescent with rage over the manner in which some boor beat the most qualified presidential...
Nationalised Network Rail Screws Up The East Coast Line – Therefore All Trains Must...
Chris Grayling has decided to take the East Coast franchise back into government ownership. Seems an entirely sensible thing to do. Someone who leases...
MPs Report Entirely Misses The Damn Point About Carillion’s Collapse
Frank Field and his mates on the Commons work and pensions committee really do have some 'splainin' to do here. For they've entirely missed...