“Oven-ready” Fit-for-Covid Household Analogy
For as long as I can remember the Tories have argued, to huge effect, that a country’s economy is akin to a household budget. Simple, understandable, brilliant. Also, untrue. The [...]
Our Duty to Pummel Reckless Boris (RB) now
Our death toll is so extraordinarily high (now over 40,000) because we had ten years of needless austerity, coupled with the least suited candidate for PM in memory. Had the [...]
You must be kidding, right?
With the UK set to have the highest death rate in Europe – currently we have the third highest death rate in the world – any sane, dispassionate, thinking person [...]
The Government of National Blame
Regular readers to this blog may have spotted my prediction on 4 April here that Operation “Nail Starmer” had begun. I foresaw that Starmer would be invited into the General’s [...]
Show Me The Money: The CBIL Disaster
This week I was featured in The Yorkshire Post with an opinion piece on the CBIL Loan Scheme. It was featured online and also in the paper. Read the full [...]
99-year old Tom Moore shouldn’t have needed to do that
Today, legendary Captain Tom Moore opened – virtually – the new nightingale hospital in my hometown of Harrogate. By walking, very slowly, 100 times around his garden, Captain Tom has [...]
What is work? Enter: Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Before this crisis, most of us had some sort of work to perform. You might be thinking: what about the retired and the super-rich – surely, they didn’t perform any [...]
Covid healed the Brexit wound
Tonight’s NHS clap on our street was the loudest yet! Accompanying the obligatory clapping and clattering of pans were fireworks and music. Although Dominic Raab’s instruction, just a few hours [...]
RIP The British Economy: murdered by bureaucracy
As a small business owner, and as someone who interviews business owners for the The Harrogate Podcast, I fear for our SMEs. Most have been clobbered by COVID. My best [...]
The Key Worker Party?
Whilst it’s the zeitgeist to make for predictions for the post-COVID world (and I have made a few already), here is another. The Key Worker identity is here to stay, [...]
