Jon Chadwick

Businessman and entrepreneur. Founder of Durham Distillery. Before I made Gin I worked for the Government, and the NHS, mostly in senior jobs. I love music, yoga, food and drink and I hate paperwork and bureaucracy and all that goes with it. Which is probably why I don’t work for the Government any more.

24 Hour Politics People P2. More on Laffer curves, and maybe I was too harsh on Jeremy Corbyn?

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As a follow up to yesterday’s blog I wanted to say a tiny bit more about Laffer curves and whether or not they work in the real world.   I feel that I dismissed a huge idea in modern economics without giving it time of day, but I didn’t want the whole blog to be … Read more

24 Hr Politics People; Why Laffer Curves and Universal Basic Income have become 2 of the most influential daft ideas of the modern age.

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In case anyone had missed it we live in a 24/7 media culture.  Politicians rise and fall based on their ability to shape or react to a continuous churn of news. This has created a bias for action not ideas.  Tough new measures rather than well thought out policies. Clampdowns on pretty much everything.  An … Read more

What if all Government Data is wrong?

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This is short update in advance of next weeks full blog.  I am trying to stick to one longer piece a month, with some shorter blogs in between Last year I wrote about the way that Unemployment Statistics are collected: https://jon-chadwick.com/2017/03/18/unemployments-rising-in-the-chigley-end-of-town/ In particular I highlighted problems with the way the Labour Force Survey captures data … Read more

How close are we to legalising drugs? Are the Tories more liberal on drugs than Labour? Will Boris Johnson be remembered as the man who decriminalised cocaine?

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  I found needles and ampules in my neighbourhood this week.   I live very near a big hospital, which means that it was more likely to be medical rather than heroin, but I rang the Police nonetheless, being a concerned citizen. For those who don’t know Durham runs the most liberal drugs regime in … Read more

Apologies

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  Apologies for the lack of blogging. I am on duty running the shop this weekend.  If you would like to pop in and debate any of the issues in the blog, or buy Gin it would be great to see you. Especially if you want to buy Gin

NHS Managers are great! Lets hire loads more of them.

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Very very quietly a long era in NHS history might just be ending.     I started writing a short history of NHS Management.  My original jumping off point was this article from Warwick University Business School Warwick University offer a specialist healthcare management MBA which absolutely isn’t a conflict of interest with this research … Read more

Is the NHS Underfunded? What does underfunded mean?

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The NHS is underfunded. This is such a widespread belief, that I don’t know anyone who would challenge that statement.  Instinctively I believe it too, if only because over the last few years the Government has fibbed outrageously about how much it is putting into the NHS which they wouldn’t need to do if funding … Read more