The recent protest this week at the Snooker World Championships offers yet another example of how protest by some has become dangerous to our society and exhibit all the hallmarks of psychopathy as opposed to public conscience. I was brought up to be respectful and tolerant of others. To value a liberal democracy where the […]
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Time to pay MPs £250k a year… Hear me out
Any donatioms welcome as always. Absolutely useless. Selfish. Greedy. Corrupt. Spineless. Stupid. Lying scum. These aren’t just the words we reserve for journalists after Covid. They are also the words we use to describe, on the whole, those who represent us in Parliament. I’m not here to argue the case for the current house. I’m […]
Almost two years to the day I published Part 4 of what I called ‘The Age of Entitlement’. A series of detailed pieces that outlined and predicted the pain we are now seeing writ large. I lamented how people across the developed world had succumbed to selfishness and shirked their responsibility to future generations when […]
Be honest, that statement is true. Since elected there have been more than a few moments where he’s forgotten where he is, said something you can’t understand and even fallen over more than once. That it wouldn’t surprise you exposes a very real problem in the functioning of society and western democracy. We’ve heard and […]
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Do Away With Offices? Are You Mad?
Throughout the pandemic much discussion has focused on the question of what may change fundamentally going forwards as we embrace a ‘new normal’. No topic has attracted as much as attention as the need to work in offices. Some have already seemingly decided. The likes of Facebook, Slack, Shopify and even Microsoft have all made […]
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Today’s intelligence briefing
Trump Insecurities Hit Peak Taken at face value President Biden’s comments are clear. He is set to deprive former President Trump of his daily intelligence briefings – briefings afforded to every previous President – on the grounds he’s “too erratic” and may abuse this privilege, presumably by speaking about the contents. As expected this news […]
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Brexit’s Dividend For All
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and has manged to endure, as best as possible, a very long January this year with lockdown in full flow. I hadn’t purposely given myself a break on the blog front. Truth be told I’d started a new job and struggled to find a new rhythm for when to […]
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The Age of Entitlement – Part 4
Part 4 – Funny Money And A Perilous Path With vaccinations underway it may appear that we are now at the ‘beginning of the end’. In a matter of months providing the vaccine protects against infection in the high risk groups we should be able to unlock and return to normal. Or so the plan […]
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The Age of Entitlement – Part 3
Part 3 – Beware Bad Actors In parts 1 & 2 I’ve shown two things. Firstly, an alarming majority of people hold the view that a perfect solution exists to Covid. Secondly, that this mass delusion has distorted and dictated our response to Covid resulting in an outcome that is a catastrophe by any objective […]
I wrote this at the start of April. On the whole it has aged well. I wouldn’t change the overall approach – the need to hedge a no vaccine scenario by managing transmission, as well as recognising that for the youngest the virus represented a risk lockdown was unwarranted for. But I would change one […]