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The New Immigration Policy
The government have administered a populist masterstroke with the post Brexit immigration policy. They have focused most people (particularly Brexiteers) on the minimum 26k salary to avoid immigration of unskilled labour. However, they have done this whilst distracting people from a potential race to the bottom in the skilled sector. For all those who think EU ...
Impulse Winning the Battle Against Logic
I was wondering the other day how it could be that populism is so successful right now? How is it that the world almost seems upside down and logic is defied by impulse? I am not an expert and even a psychologist that I do know, is baffled by what sometimes feels like a descent into madness. We are in a period where, whether you are in the workplace, or at the ...
The Gentlemen
We went to see ‘The Gentlemen’ last night. As you would expect with a Guy Richie film, it involved drugs, Britain’s underworld, and several easy to follow plotlines. Featuring a sophisticated, Oxford educated American drug lord (Mickey Pearson) an underhand Jewish businessman, Chinese wannabe drug lords, the chav MMA members of a boxing club run by a ...
Johnson and his Fantasy Bridges!
In many ways, Boris Johnson’s childlike fascination with bridges is funny. However, when you begin to understand that he couldn’t even oversee the building of a bridge from London, to…erm…London, his latest fantasy project appears even more preposterous. It could still be regarded as funny if it didn’t cost anything to dream. However, the moment these ...
Storm Ciara Passes Through
Well, that was a good storm wasn’t it? So often these storms come along amid yellow warnings and, inland, we a treated to nothing more than a blustery day. The coastal areas of the UK end up as the only ones getting all the fun. Of course, there is no fun in an Oak tree falling on your car, getting your house flooded, or getting swept off your feet by a raging ...