Words can be really slippery and none more so than words like ‘Freedom’. We think of it as an unalloyed good, but the harder you look the harder it is to define. Generally First of all, there is no such thing as complete Freedom You cannot escape from gravity (on Continue Reading
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The question of the EU
Posted on February 23, 2016 The debate is now on and in 100 days we have to make a decision that will have repercussions for at least the next 30 years. Sovereignty Lots of people are arguing over the issues of sovereignty. But I should declare my point of view Continue Reading
Who should suffer the most from this crisis?
Posted on April 6, 2013 In April 2013 the Conservatives intensified their campaign of vilification of the poorest in our society as part of their justification for making some welfare recipients pay the greatest cost for the economic problems caused by the banking crash of 2008. The gap between the Continue Reading
A fall in GDP might be a good thing
Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP is the definition of recession and a general cause of economic panic which can make further decline a self fulfilling prophecy. But there is something I don’t understand…. I am sure that most of you have heard of ‘Moore’s Law’ – the prediction by Continue Reading
A crisis is also an opportunity for change
Pre Christmas gloom following Osborne’s scary Autumn statement has settled like a cloak of depression over the whole country. A wasted decade of zero or less GDP growth, unemployed youth and 50 year olds thrown onto a scrap heap that is becoming cruelly indifferent to their plight. Business cut backs Continue Reading
Confidence is good for the individual and bad for the organisation
We all look to experts in order to help us navigate round an increasingly complex world. The difficulty is in working out who to trust? Is it the person who shows plenty of self confidence and never admits either being wrong, or not knowing? Or the quiet self deprecating person Continue Reading
An atheist in a moral universe
There was a time when the possibility of the earth revolving round the sun was the subject of much debate and, since there was a limited amount of evidence, it was basically a matter of belief and philosophy. Today there is no longer any serious debate, not least because we Continue Reading