Business
Where Gary Neville Comes From
‘It’s a fact of life that where we come from is important. I used to lie in bed thinking about themes where I could address the players that would make an impact on them. I [more…]
Property
Business
The Bell Hotel, Epping
A disappointed migrant sits in his hotel room. England is not as he expected. A bee lodges in his bonnet. He puts pen to paper and troubles the letters page of a London newspaper. Here’s [more…]
Communism
Command Economies
After a once in a lifetime budget that was designed to promote growth, fill a fictitious £22 billion black hole and encourage new jobs, what are we left with, little to no growth, a £50 [more…]
Economics
Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Three
10 million immigrants officially have increased the U.K. population, the true figure will of course be higher, no one has ever voted for this, one of the results of this invasion apart from the pressure [more…]
Economics
Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Two
Following on from detailing some of the ways Landlords will be affected by the bill there has been a great furore centred on “Section 21 is no fault eviction” in fact no one wants to [more…]
Economics
Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part One
Labour are rushing this bill through Parliament but in fairness it was initiated by Gove and cheered on by various pressure groups including Shelter, the outfit which has never given shelter to anyone. Listed below [more…]
Cooking
A View From (Quite Close To) The Greenhouse; It’s All A Conspiracy…..Innit?
Winter arrives in the Northern backwaters, with a short lived but fierce reminder that the weather, when it chooses, can be the boss of us all. Cue, then, the assorted fanatics, grifters, bought and paid [more…]
Authoritarianism
First Came The Floods…
First came the floods that washed away people’s homes, then came the bulldozers that destroyed everything that was left. Before the mass revolt in Kenya spread countrywide in June, it had already started in the [more…]
21st Century
Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight
Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]