I am at the Hay Festival this evening, in conversation with my old friend and Green New Deal colleague, Andrew Simms.
It seems a bit pointless to go right across England during half term and not take a day or two off to enjoy some of the border country, let alone Wales. So if things are erratic on the blog for the next couple of days, you know why. Some steam trains, a bit of bird watching and maybe a pint or two, will have been thrown into the mix.
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Take a detour into the black mountains near hay and visit Llanthony priory. It’s a long time since I’ve been there but it was one of those mystical places that sticks in the brain. Their homemade cider was good too!
Was hoping to get over to see you, Richard but health limitations have intervened again and it would simply be too exhausting for me to drive over, park and manage the crowds. Hope all goes well. Any chance of you coming to Cheltenham (lots of festivals there!) pretty much on my doorstep!
Sorry not to see you
Never been invited to the Gold Cup
There’s the Literary festival-and you are a writer- economists are now pretty much part of the literary scene-I’d get a foot in there!
I found this a very interesting historical article on the relationship between local sources of credit and working class life during the industrial revolution, from Andrew Simms New Weather Institute site.
Contrast that to today’s loan sharks, wongas and equally extortionate forms of bank credit that prey on the young, poor, weak and infirm in society.
http://www.newweather.org/2016/06/02/historians-tell-it-how-it-was-learning-from-the-past-about-rapid-transition/
I was with Andrew, last night