Month: August 2020
Farage Garage and Cabotage
With all of the mess around Covid and exam results it is easy to forgot that we have a much bigger challenge ahead Brexit In all of the flurry of nonsense I wanted to highlight the problem of licensing British lorries to work in the EU after the 31st December. The process of authorising goods … Read more
Kick Start | A kick in the teeth for young people
All of the focus of the last week in politics has been the storm around A level results. This is without doubt one of the most shambolic situations any Government has found itself in, one which has no easy way out. The only positive thing I can take from it is that the 6th formers … Read more
The politics of loneliness: Are the 1930s really repeating themselves?
Hegel remarks…. that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl Marx 18th Brumaire. I get reminded of this quote on a daily basis when people make comparisons between our current age and the 1930s, in particular … Read more
Updates | Stories I previously covered
Last month I wrote about the potential for Coronavirus to take hold in rural America. Since then the situation has worsened rapidly, and we are way beyond what I considered a worse case scenario. Without a big change of plan they will at least double their number of deaths before the election. Trebling the number … Read more
Fragile Working | Why the public sector coped with Covid better than the private sector
The Government has made a massive mess of it’s response to Coronavirus. An unmitigated disaster. Boris Johnson and his team prioritised managing the news cycle over managing the virus; too many eye catching announcements without any actual thought about whether they would work. With so many gaffes it’s hard to pick a low point, but … Read more