The Return of the State, and The State Strikes Back
All hail the State! All hail the State. Those of you who claimed that the only way to recover from the International Banking Crisis of 2008 was to cut, cut [...]
The gutsiest of decisions
As Premier League football is cancelled today – as well nearly every other large gathering – the Government has surprised us all by not electing to instruct the populace to [...]
My answers, to those questions
With permission from the Head Teacher, today I took the kids out of school in order to spend the day filming a documentary about one company’s efforts to tackle manmade [...]
The end of party politics?
Possibly. Today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor announced so many billions - or was it was trillions - of pounds of infrastructure projects that one would [...]
The politics of coronavirus: are right-wingers coronavirus sceptics?
(For context, I’m writing on the day that the international stock markets collapsed, at a similar level to the 2008 decimation, all because of COVID-19. Italy has just quarantined the [...]
My business journey
A wonderful lawyer business coach – Ann Page – helped me in my early years of my law firm. Ann interviewed me for her new book Business Skills? Don’t be [...]
4 things that I’ve learned from a few nights’ stay, courtesy of Harrogate Hospital Urology Department
Men can - yes we can! - talk about delicate health matters, but we shouldn’t have to wait for hospitalisation until we do so. It’s possible to lose a needle [...]
Corbyn, Trump and the Cult
Politically, Corbyn and Trump are of course diametrically opposite. (I backed Corbyn in the leadership election of 2015: I was swayed by his political history and the inevitable avalanche of [...]
The Genius that is Capitalism
Like it or not, capitalism is genius. And all geniuses are flawed. In my favourite - though rarely-referenced - tranche of Marxism, Marx declares that, "Crime produces locks, jails, police, [...]
The Good Old Days
It seems to me that many folks hunger for the good old days, when life was - so some people argue - better, in every conceivable way. Leaving aside the [...]