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“Conservative” government?……if only!

16th August 2021 Emile Woolf 2722 Comments

The Conservative government has strayed so far from the principles on which it was elected that it is scarcely recognisable as the party most people voted for. Its colour on the political spectrum has undergone [more…]

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Glesga Gang Goings-on Bloodbath

12th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 3226 Comments

Having put Apsana Begum MP’s Bengali Benefits bother to bed, GP’s Bloodbath investigative team retired to the couch, hoping never again to be involved in the likes of Tower Hamlets and its South Asian political, [more…]

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GDP Tells Us Little about the Health of an Economy

28th July 2021 Patrick Barron 2187 Comments

The government’s and the mainstream media’s favorite economic statistic is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If GDP goes up, then the economy is doing well. If GDP shrinks, then the economy is doing poorly, or so [more…]

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Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2294 Comments

Most problems that blight the lives of ordinary folk are caused by politicians. In a democracy one might suggest this is counter intuitive, but democracy has mutated since its  Athenian concept so drastically it has [more…]

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Euro 2020 Penalty Shoot Out Bloodbath

26th July 2021 Always Worth Saying 2839 Comments

GP’s Bloodbath investigative team, having returned from a bad-tempered Batley and Spen by-election battleground ballot box bust-up, thought they could take a relaxing break in front of the England v Italy Euro 2020 final. How [more…]

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Basic Economics

26th July 2021 Emile Woolf 2515 Comments

The great debate now obsessing Treasury bosses and central bankers is whether all those trillions they continue to print so obsessively are at last producing a perceptible bout of hyperinflation. Before trying to make sense [more…]

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War on Cash: EU steps up the fight

15th July 2021 Going Postal 2319 Comments

The prolonged and repeated lockdowns, business closures and travel bans have caused widespread economic devastation and changed the way all of us live, work and interact with each other. These were the most obvious changes [more…]

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Monetary Climate Change and its implications for investors, part two

12th July 2021 Going Postal 2525 Comments

Claudio Grass (CG): Even before the pandemic, there was a clear trend towards the politicization of central banks and monetary policy. Over the last year, however, we saw this accelerate considerably, to the point where [more…]

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This could work America!

10th July 2021 Fred Brownbill 2224 Comments

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. Michael Jordan. Can you imagine your boss saying to you that instead of a five day workweek you could work a four day [more…]

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