Arts
Socialism
America
Keeping Economics Simple
The US Department of Defence is a major customer of many private sector suppliers, including the Boeing Company. Although relationships between customer and supplier are mutually beneficial, that is by no means the only reason [more…]
Arts
On Being Doxxed
Fellow Postaliers, imagine that you fire up your computer in the morning, open the Daily Express website to check the headlines and find yourself looking at your own swooningly handsome visage, in a row of [more…]
Communism
The Climate Crisis
The climate crisis is never out of the news lately, with Extinction Rebellion holding protests and with constant dire warnings of impending doom across various news channels, and stories of record temperatures everywhere. So, with [more…]
Health
Tackling Obesity is Everybody’s Business
Parenthood brings with it trials and joys, frustrations and fears. It is a great responsibility and we all want the best for our children. I confess my parental feeling recently has been of pride. Pride [more…]
20th Century
Unions and their Perfidy
I served my time as a Toolmaker in a contract shop on the Kirkby Trading Estate near Liverpool, finishing and fully qualified in 1961 I realised that staying at the same place you would always [more…]
Communism
Time to Wake Up
A friend of many years’ standing has sent me an essay written by his 21-year-old grandson, now entering his final post-graduate year. It purports to establish that Capitalism and human survival on Planet Earth are [more…]
Authoritarianism
The Putrid Remnants of the British Left
There’s been lots of talk of Nazis of late. Lots of hate talk, hate speech and hatefulness. Fascists and the far right and, and, racists. That kind of Nazi talk gets press! Trump’s a Nazi, [more…]
Capitalism
The Climate Change Business
Before I start on the main body of this exercise, a few words on my background. On leaving school I joined, what at that time was one of the UK’s largest Power Engineering companies. Over [more…]