George Floyd and Donald Trump
For posterity, I am posting the video which gruesomely shows the murder of George Floyd here. It needs to be seen to be believed. For posterity, I am posting a [...]
Marxists and Capitalists
Marxists and Capitalists make the same mistake: both describe our current system as capitalist. Sure, it is capitalist, but missing is the sub-category. As Yanis Varoufakis skilfully explains here, when [...]
PMQs on 3 June 2020
In PMQs today, Reckless Boris (RB) was in defensive mood, despatching Starmer’s attacks with consummate ease. The PM – king of winging it – knew what was coming because Starmer’s [...]
Good Days, Bad Days
After a bad day - as today has been - as a sufferer of a chronic pain-type illness, I now sympathise with those who have had the good day-bad day, [...]
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis captured the spirit of the mid-90s. At 15, I remember that time as one of optimism; we knew that something better was en [...]
Lockdown Weather and Pascal’s Wager
At the high risk of being ridiculed, I’ll write it regardless. The best weather in my lifetime, coincided with the only lockdown in my lifetime. During this weird period, like [...]
Blairism and Borism
Saddo political anorak that I am, on what was a yet another gorgeous day (has the weather ever been better?), I cantered through – in awe – A Journey by [...]
Action
I’m a relatively new member of the Liberal Democrats. I was a Tory at school, because my parents were Tories. University broadened my mind: as Jordan Peterson states, conservatism is [...]
We can move mountains
Until yesterday, my dealings with business banking has been the low point in my business life. The average length of a call to my high street business bank was around [...]
Never been prouder…
One of the reasons that I set up what I hope is an ethical law firm is to make a difference. Running such a law firm I can tell you [...]