Business
Civil Servants
I was asked to appear on the Mark Dolan Show (GB News) last week to discuss the proposition ‘Are Civil Servants Inherently Left Wing?’ Irritatingly a technical hitch my end scrapped the debate. The proposition [more…]
Public Sector
Authoritarianism
Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries
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…]
20th Century
Roosevelt’s Disastrous New Deal
Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into main stream academic & political economic archives [more…]
Arts
Authoritarianism
COVID-19 – Exposing the Rot
When the British voted to leave the EU in 2016, what followed after that showed how rotten much of the political and media establishment truly is. We thought we had seen it all after the [more…]
Arts
The Virus Circle – An Object Lesson on Socialist Economics
It’s not quite like having to start the economy from scratch, but this lockdown-induced recession warrants some detached assessment. We are aware that viable businesses have been forced to close their doors – or keep [more…]
Uncategorized
Adventures in Teaching
2001, I had finished university, after paying all my fees up front, and taking out large student loans, I emerged with a Degree in History. How to put it to good use? After working in [more…]