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, [...]
Testing, testing, 1, 2, not 3
In mid-February, I started with a sky-high temperature. After that, I was absolutely shattered for two days. Adhering to governmental instruction, I telephoned 111, and followed their advice: no need [...]
How a solicitor political leader might act?
With the PM fighting for his life, the mantle has been passed to Dominic Raab, a solicitor. Sidestepping the constitutional crisis, given that it is the Queen who appoints a [...]
No time for sexism, Secretary General
In a thoughtful piece printed in The Guardian on 2 April 2020, United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, argues for a three-pronged approach to tackling the pandemic. To boil it down, [...]
Get well soon, Boris
For temporal context, I type this blog as the PM is spending his second night in hospital with coronavirus. As I type this second sentence, Boris has now been taken [...]
