I posted this video on YouTube this morning: In case the link does not work, you can watch the video here. This is the transcript:
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On university protests
Robert Reich wrote this a few days ago. I share it because I think it wholly appropriate to do so, and that his words were
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The Premier League is an oligopolist erecting effective barriers to market entry. What is anyone going to do about it?
As the Guardian notes this morning, this is the current state of the UK’s football premier league: There is, I promise, good economic reason for
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Freedom from fear
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: The transcript is as follows: Freedom from fear is one of the things that every politician should
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Do we have a sickness culture or a sick benefits system?
The FT has offered an an analysis in so-called sick note culture today. Its conclusion is that there is no such thing. The data on
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Bag of tricks
We need to be awake to nature
One of the strangest consequences of running a blog that has quite a high volume of traffic is that I receive a great many press
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What is fair when it comes to tax?
I posted this video on YouTube this morning: This is the transcript: Taxes should be fair. I think that’s obvious. Well, it should be to
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Without providing safe routes for potential refugees Keir Starmer has no way of stopping the boats
I watched Keir Starmer talking on a news bulletin last night and heard him say, in words that echo those of Rishi Sunak, that we
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