Month: July 2019

Self Unemployment | The Government employment figures are wrong

We are living through a golden age of near full employment according to the Department of Work and Pensions and the Office of National Statistics. Despite a slow growing economy and low levels of business investment unemployment is back to levels not seen since the 1970s. I have mixed views about this. I do think… Read More Self Unemployment | The Government employment figures are wrong

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Slavery | Toussaint L’Ouverture, Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499, Ann Widdecombe

Anne Widdecombe announced her arrival in the European Parliament this week with a speech that made a spectacularly ill judged comparison between Brexit and the abolition of slavery. Widdecombe’s views on slavery, the British Empire and the last few hundred years of British history maybe eccentric and unpleasant, but she isn’t the only person with… Read More Slavery | Toussaint L’Ouverture, Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499, Ann Widdecombe

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