I was having a riverside chat with my cricket captain yesterday. It was supposed to be about the new cricket season but it inevitably it drifted into politics and the host of bullying ineptitudes in the Tory Party. When the conversation drifted towards, arguably, the most inept of them all, James described Liz Truss (AKA Trussterfuck) as a ‘Post Turtle’. I had never heard this term before. Apparently, it originates from the United States....
Reading Football Club are on a slide that looks irreversible. By chasing the riches of top flight football they went into debt. When the Premier League dream faded, player salaries and transfer costs were racing past income.
Wages versus Income
At one point, Reading’s salaries were 234% of income. So, in other words, for every pound they received in revenue, they spent £2:34. Unsustainable, yes…until you look at the riches of the ...
I was looking at some pictures of birds I have taken, the other day. One of my favourites is of a kingfisher (see above). They are incredibly quick in flight, so normally all you will see is an orange and blue blur. To see one sitting, looking for breakfast, is incredible. It’s when you realise what it really means to have your breath taken away.
Who Cares?
With pollution flowing down our rivers faster than bungs and donations passing ...
I guess election strategy always existed. There are Labour and Conservative voters who will never change allegiance, so the balance is swung by appealing to the ambivalent and the floaters.
Johnson’s Populism
Since Boris Johnson chaotically crashed into frontline politics, populism has been all the rage. The Conservative strategy of recent years has been to create fear and hate. This allowed them to take votes from deprived areas which ...
To understand the pitfalls of regulation, you need the ability to define it: Deregulation as I see it, is the process of removing government restrictions on industry and allowing it to operate with freedom from regulations. While some (mostly dodgy) people believe that deregulation will stimulate economic growth, others argue that it has catastrophic consequences. This includes harm to public health and safety, environmental damage, and ...
