“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s Chief [more…]
Doris said, ‘I heard on the BBC that us old folk are going to be confined to barracks because of that virus. They said it’s for our own safety,’ Doris was 83 and her husband [more…]
There is nothing new under the sun Modern Monetary Theory, or “MMT”, has been getting a lot of attention lately, often celebrated as a revolutionary breakthrough. However, there is absolutely nothing new about it. The [more…]
There has been something of a lull in Hong Kong recently: Christmas, Calendar New Year and the Lunar New year to come at the end of the week have contributed to a pause in the [more…]
There is a certain segment of society that is sufficiently deficient in self-awareness, social conscience, understanding, and indeed wisdom, that they are incapable of any ethical or moral position other than that which is floated [more…]
The recent ‘Hong Kong Protests’ piece attracted several comments and questions, but notably ‘Why now?’ and ‘What started this?’ So here is ‘Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel’. A long time ago, during the premiership [more…]
Wiki: Overton_window An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibility There have been some impressive and heated election debates here and on other political blogs in the past few days. The merits of strategic [more…]
Hong Kong in November feels and looks very different than it did in May. The weather is glorious – the wind has changed, the humidity decreased and a very comfortable 25 degrees. But of course [more…]
One of the tramp’s perpetual complaints, of which there are many not a few, is that the Tories will do away with his beloved Workers’ Rights as soon as we step away from the EU. [more…]
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