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 Farage Garage and Cabotage
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 Kick Start | A kick in the teeth for young people
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 The politics of loneliness: Are the 1930s really repeating themselves?
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 Updates | Stories I previously covered
Quiz |July
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 Fragile Working | Why the public sector coped with Covid better than the private sector