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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
China, The EU And Power Over Tech Companies
I just love this confluence. The manner in which Inman, at The Guardian, licks his lips over the power the European Union will – or should – have over Big Tech. As compared to what actually happens with that power over Big Tech when someone has it, as in China. Inman: In the twilight years […]
How Poor Are The Poor, Really?
From our Swindon Correspondent: I’m a big fan of the comedian Doug Stanhope, and there’s a routine that he once did which is about people’s poverty being their own fault. From Wikiquote If you listen to anyone bitch about the economy for long enough, just let them talk, cuz you’ll eventually hear why it’s exactly their […]
It’s Worse To Be In Council Care Than To Be Abused At Home
That is one of the statements in an official report into the care of children in council homes in Lambeth. That to be in one of the homes was worse than to remain at home and be abused: Although most of the children had been taken into care after suffering violence and neglect at the […]
Electric Cars Aren’t Going To Be Cheap For All That Long
Not that they’re cheap to buy right now, but once bought they are currently cheap to operate. Which isn’t going to continue. Nope, not a chance: It’s not my Enyaq: it has been loaned to me by Škoda. This one costs £34,495 to buy, including a £2,500 government grant. Still a fair old whack, but […]
Yes Mr. Kirkup – But It’s How You Get Markets To Work That Matters
James Kirkup wants us all to know that net zero is going to be really lovely and easy because markets work. Well, yes and no. Markets do work but the question is how do we get them to do so? Those Tory opponents of wind power were wrong, and wrong in a very un-Conservative way: […]
How Stupid Are These People In Government?
There seems to be a certain lack of knowledge here., An absence of having met any actual human beings. Which isn’t, in fact, all that useful an attribute when considering how a group – a nation – of human beings might be ruled. Boris Johnson is to launch a government-backed rewards programme for families switching […]
Is Democracy The Highest Value Or Not?
We get told, interminably, by those over to our left that we should have a truly democratic economy. The argument being, as I understand it, that voting on stuff is the highest value. Who does what, how, at what price, is something that should be determined by us all marking a piece of paper so […]
Grossly, Absurdly, Stupid Claim Of The Day
Apparently we should tax the rich more because Jeff Bezos has gone into space on his own rocket. No, that really is the claim: Third, it is apparent that in the light of such failings we need tax reform. We need to tax the rich because they are rich. We need to tax them so […]
Identifying Germany’s Actual Problem
I’m a great believer in it being systems which go wrong, not individuals who nominally control them. Russian style socialism didn’t fail because Brezhnev, or Andropov, were in charge, the Soviet system failed because the Soviet system was a shite manner of trying to organise the world. Pol Pot may well have directed the Khmer […]
Housing Interference
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the Times Writing in The Times Red Box today, Jenrick says people have become disillusioned with developers after decades of poor design and that new homes must be beautiful to win public approval. “Urban planning since the war has at times been a disaster,” he writes. “It is little wonder people […]
But We Want Free Trade *In Order* To Kill Sugar Beet Production
The UK now allows in some cane sugar, free of duty, to compete with domestic production of sugar from beet. OK, that’s good, that’s what we want to be happening. Well, except those producing beet to make sugar from of course: At the end of last year, the Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, moved to unilaterally […]
You will not move. Confirm command.
It’s so lovely to have admitted liars return the freedoms they stole from us. But wait………all is not well. The pressure is on us to behave as if those freedoms had NOT been returned. After all, it’s hard to get a medical tyranny to stick without the collusion of the people – those with COVID […]
Maybe Facebook Is Killing People. And?
Joe Biden tells us that Facebook is literally killing people by allowing disinformation about vaccines to be spread on its pages. Well, yes, and Mr President? A serious question there, not just some flight of rhetoric. So, this is true – imagine it is true at least – and so what are we going to […]
Cubans and Government
From Yahoo News We are committed to supporting the Haitian government as it seeks justice in this case. And we affirm the United States support for the people of Haiti. We also stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and their calls for freedom from the repression and economic suffering that Cuba’s authoritarian regime is causing. […]
So How Many Types Of KitKat Should There Be
The idiot Henry Dimbleby tells us – in a quote that’s being picked up around the place – that there’s something wrong with the British food system because: It is bizarre, but not really surprising, that in the UK you can buy 28 different kinds of KitKat. And? No, really, and? Which is the bit […]
The EU And Indian Made AstraZeneca Vaccines
This is not just about Brexit – although there’s almost certainly some of that in there – this is a wake up call to how the medical licencing system needs to be changed. The European Union is recognising the AstraZeneca vaccine as being good if it comes from certain factories, not good if it comes […]
Segmented Sleep – I Don’t Believe It For A Moment
There’s an idea out there that humans, entirely naturally, have two sleep segments in a night. Go to bed, sleep a bit, wake up, potter about, go back to sleep. The originator talking about someone who doubts it: In the winter, whether for conviviality or work, preindustrial households remained active well after sunset, not retiring […]
With Lookouts Like These…
Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph has a stark warning for us. “If you are coming off an interest rate of just 0.1pc, the effect on big debtors such as governments of a rise to say 3pc would be hugely more destructive than an increase of a similar order of magnitude back in the late Eighties […]
Why 4 O’Clock?
Just a little thing here but as such little things often can be, an indicator of something much more important. The more important bit here being to kill off one of those memes, or perhaps mimetic misunderstandings, about banking. You don’t have to travel far – perhaps as far as Positive Money – to be […]
It’s Not A £40 Billion Brexit Bill – It’s Actually £0
As I might have mentioned before the country is not facing a £40 billion Brexit bill. The actual bill for Brexit is zero. Final bill for Brexit is £40bn, as EU demands £2bn more than expected Cost would have been higher but Brussels owes the UK nearly £2bn for its previous share of fines imposed […]
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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
Aunt Agatha has been published (the money came from an anonymous donor). It was £2500+ If you’d like a copy, donate £10+ and you’ll get one in the post (after a quick char) Drop us a donation here, and we’ll shoot you a copy! 🙂 BUY AGATHA
Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
China, The EU And Power Over Tech Companies
I just love this confluence. The manner in which Inman, at The Guardian, licks his lips over the power the European Union will – or should – have over Big Tech. As compared to what actually happens with that power over Big Tech when someone has it, as in China. Inman: In the twilight years […]
How Poor Are The Poor, Really?
From our Swindon Correspondent: I’m a big fan of the comedian Doug Stanhope, and there’s a routine that he once did which is about people’s poverty being their own fault. From Wikiquote If you listen to anyone bitch about the economy for long enough, just let them talk, cuz you’ll eventually hear why it’s exactly their […]
It’s Worse To Be In Council Care Than To Be Abused At Home
That is one of the statements in an official report into the care of children in council homes in Lambeth. That to be in one of the homes was worse than to remain at home and be abused: Although most of the children had been taken into care after suffering violence and neglect at the […]
Electric Cars Aren’t Going To Be Cheap For All That Long
Not that they’re cheap to buy right now, but once bought they are currently cheap to operate. Which isn’t going to continue. Nope, not a chance: It’s not my Enyaq: it has been loaned to me by Škoda. This one costs £34,495 to buy, including a £2,500 government grant. Still a fair old whack, but […]
Yes Mr. Kirkup – But It’s How You Get Markets To Work That Matters
James Kirkup wants us all to know that net zero is going to be really lovely and easy because markets work. Well, yes and no. Markets do work but the question is how do we get them to do so? Those Tory opponents of wind power were wrong, and wrong in a very un-Conservative way: […]
How Stupid Are These People In Government?
There seems to be a certain lack of knowledge here., An absence of having met any actual human beings. Which isn’t, in fact, all that useful an attribute when considering how a group – a nation – of human beings might be ruled. Boris Johnson is to launch a government-backed rewards programme for families switching […]
Is Democracy The Highest Value Or Not?
We get told, interminably, by those over to our left that we should have a truly democratic economy. The argument being, as I understand it, that voting on stuff is the highest value. Who does what, how, at what price, is something that should be determined by us all marking a piece of paper so […]
Grossly, Absurdly, Stupid Claim Of The Day
Apparently we should tax the rich more because Jeff Bezos has gone into space on his own rocket. No, that really is the claim: Third, it is apparent that in the light of such failings we need tax reform. We need to tax the rich because they are rich. We need to tax them so […]
Identifying Germany’s Actual Problem
I’m a great believer in it being systems which go wrong, not individuals who nominally control them. Russian style socialism didn’t fail because Brezhnev, or Andropov, were in charge, the Soviet system failed because the Soviet system was a shite manner of trying to organise the world. Pol Pot may well have directed the Khmer […]
Housing Interference
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the Times Writing in The Times Red Box today, Jenrick says people have become disillusioned with developers after decades of poor design and that new homes must be beautiful to win public approval. “Urban planning since the war has at times been a disaster,” he writes. “It is little wonder people […]
But We Want Free Trade *In Order* To Kill Sugar Beet Production
The UK now allows in some cane sugar, free of duty, to compete with domestic production of sugar from beet. OK, that’s good, that’s what we want to be happening. Well, except those producing beet to make sugar from of course: At the end of last year, the Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, moved to unilaterally […]
You will not move. Confirm command.
It’s so lovely to have admitted liars return the freedoms they stole from us. But wait………all is not well. The pressure is on us to behave as if those freedoms had NOT been returned. After all, it’s hard to get a medical tyranny to stick without the collusion of the people – those with COVID […]
Maybe Facebook Is Killing People. And?
Joe Biden tells us that Facebook is literally killing people by allowing disinformation about vaccines to be spread on its pages. Well, yes, and Mr President? A serious question there, not just some flight of rhetoric. So, this is true – imagine it is true at least – and so what are we going to […]
Cubans and Government
From Yahoo News We are committed to supporting the Haitian government as it seeks justice in this case. And we affirm the United States support for the people of Haiti. We also stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and their calls for freedom from the repression and economic suffering that Cuba’s authoritarian regime is causing. […]
So How Many Types Of KitKat Should There Be
The idiot Henry Dimbleby tells us – in a quote that’s being picked up around the place – that there’s something wrong with the British food system because: It is bizarre, but not really surprising, that in the UK you can buy 28 different kinds of KitKat. And? No, really, and? Which is the bit […]
The EU And Indian Made AstraZeneca Vaccines
This is not just about Brexit – although there’s almost certainly some of that in there – this is a wake up call to how the medical licencing system needs to be changed. The European Union is recognising the AstraZeneca vaccine as being good if it comes from certain factories, not good if it comes […]
Segmented Sleep – I Don’t Believe It For A Moment
There’s an idea out there that humans, entirely naturally, have two sleep segments in a night. Go to bed, sleep a bit, wake up, potter about, go back to sleep. The originator talking about someone who doubts it: In the winter, whether for conviviality or work, preindustrial households remained active well after sunset, not retiring […]
With Lookouts Like These…
Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph has a stark warning for us. “If you are coming off an interest rate of just 0.1pc, the effect on big debtors such as governments of a rise to say 3pc would be hugely more destructive than an increase of a similar order of magnitude back in the late Eighties […]
Why 4 O’Clock?
Just a little thing here but as such little things often can be, an indicator of something much more important. The more important bit here being to kill off one of those memes, or perhaps mimetic misunderstandings, about banking. You don’t have to travel far – perhaps as far as Positive Money – to be […]
It’s Not A £40 Billion Brexit Bill – It’s Actually £0
As I might have mentioned before the country is not facing a £40 billion Brexit bill. The actual bill for Brexit is zero. Final bill for Brexit is £40bn, as EU demands £2bn more than expected Cost would have been higher but Brussels owes the UK nearly £2bn for its previous share of fines imposed […]
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The BBC and terrorism
The language we use matters – it provides clarity to our own thoughts and enables us to be clear to others about what we mean. The language people use to us matters doubly, both as an attempt to control, or at least move, our thoughts, and also as a guide to the beliefs of those […]
We Should Pay Medical Personnel For Each Procedure They Perform
It is now generally acknowledged that the structure of the NHS needs to be overhauled to make it more responsive to patient needs, and more efficient. We should apply the lessons learned from Australia’s national healthcare, where medical personnel are paid for the procedures they perform rather than for simply having patients on their books. […]
The Scrubbers Are Failing
In the film Apollo 13, a loss of oxygen causes the crew to start inadvertently poisoning themselves with their exhalations. The engineers back on earth race to devise a way to ensure the buildup of carbon dioxide doesn’t choke them, and then communicate it to the dying astronauts before they become too weak and disorientated […]
Wondering whether an idea is actually correct or not
There’s an idea out there which seems intuitive but then so many ideas do seem that way. It;s whether they actually hold up in reality that matters. Another way of describing much the same thing is that vast numbers of things happen in an economy and someone will do near anything in response to an […]
Is Cryptocurrency Our Revolution, Or Theirs?
When we think about the darkly opaque goals of modern central bankers as they relate to the global monetary system, their conduct raises the question – are they racing to repair it, or preparing to replace it? Let’s speculate wildly about the latter. Back in 1988 the Economist told us to get ready for a […]
Playing The Mischief With Us
As the papers recently filled with the distressing images of desperate souls looking to escape the imminent religious tyranny of the Taliban, I’m reminded of our own history, and also the words of Frederick Douglass who cautioned against interventions in his own culture: “Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the […]
Aunt Agatha is PUBLISHED!
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Cars in London
From our Swindon Correspondent: From On London On the face of it, then, we’ve seen red route traffic increase since March to a point where it is just a few per cent less than was normal pre-Covid for this time of year. If that is a trend and it continues, we seem to be on […]
Independent Verification
From our Swindon Correspondent: One of my favourite techniques to verify data is to try and find other data, produced by other, unconnected means that should match an effect. The problem when people are connected is that they can often base their estimations on similar root information that is wrong. For example. if you wanted to […]
Jim, For The Good Of The Company, You’ll Be Gay On Tuesdays
There are three little problems with this idea from NASDAQ. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved a Nasdaq proposal that could make company boards — and, by extension, the companies themselves — more diverse. The rule requires companies listed on its exchange to report their board diversity and have on their board — […]
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