Apple’s Irish Planning Nightmare Shows The Dire Costs Of Bureaucracy
A nice little horror story from Ireland showing us all what the immense costs of bureaucratic wibbling are. The net effect of which is...
As BT Shows Culling, Killing Off, Bureaucracy Is A Constant Battle
What was British Telecom has announced that it's going to fire lots of people. Ah well, that's the sort of thing that happens sometimes,...
Trump’s Iran Call Reimposes Sanctions On All, Not Just American Companies
That the US pulls out of the nuclear deal with Iran will mean that US sanctions are reimposed upon US companies. That's generally how...
Greenpeace Insists Recycling Uses More Resources – So Let’s Stop Doing It, Eh?
This is not what Greenpeace thinks it is saying of course but it is the underlying meaning of what they say. Recycling uses more...
Trump’s Iran Deal Rejection Spikes The Oil Price – But Only Spikes It
Donald Trump has decided - well, perhaps announced as a prelude to the Art of the Deal - to renounce the Iran nuclear deal...
As The Resolution Foundation Points Out, The Welfare State Isn’t Affordable
Every time someone says that we need to raise taxes to pay for elder health care, or pensions, or the effects of an ageing...
Parks Have Value D’Oh. So, We’re Richer, More Productive And Less Unequal Than We...
Over the weekend we had a charity which supports the idea of public parks telling us that public parks have a value to people....
Seems Obvious Enough – If Humans Stop Killing Them, Large Predators Return
Of course, this is going to make going for a walk in the woods, or a swim in the river, more interesting but if...
As The Guardian Says, We Really Should Change Bank Holidays – Crecy, Agincourt, Trafalgar?
This is one of those things which comes up time and again - we really ought to do something about Bank Holidays. It's one...
Pricy Pasties
Austrian economists say that if you magic a bunch of money into existence, the price of stuff tends to go up – you've added...