Monthly Archives: May 2010
Good day
If too long, but I have a stillage full of beer nicely chilling in mycellar. That’s worth taking the time to enjoy. Further details forthcoming soonest.
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Short Term Thinking III
My last two posts provided the primer for a discussion of how post-industrial economies interact with the drive towards a democratic system from our current standpoint of an unplanned constitutional monarchy in which approximately two thirds of the country are … Continue reading
Short Term Thinking II
The most salient similarity between the two inordinately long, one might almost say ’19th Century’, regimes that have dictated our lives for the past forty years is the way the markets reacted to them (of course, they pursued unexpectedly similar … Continue reading
We’re Off…
to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of pub. After lots of months, more bureaucratic idiocy than you can shake Michael Gove at and two weeks of stress, distress and uncertainty which I hope never to have to repeat, John … Continue reading
Short Term Thinking I
The economy (and political map) of Britain have changed radically since 1977. This is not a controversial statement. We’ve gotten collectively richer, while in the process metastasizing tumours of disadvantage which will take not years but generations, plural, to heal. … Continue reading
Electoral reform
More or less, the offer from both senior parties to the LibDems depends from the same flawed premise. Both parties are prepared to put AV to the country; neither are prepared to do the same with STV. And I believe … Continue reading
Clegg-iscite II
Some real politics has happened in London, nothing like the scale or reach of the G20 demonstrations last year but arising from the same kind of alliance of grass-roots movements; by which I mean Power2010, Make Votes Count, Unlock Democracy, … Continue reading
Con
Were there no other reasons to see this election as an open call for a new system, there is the loss of Evan Harris. I was guessing that this outcome would lead to a second election soon. Now that we … Continue reading
Shambles
I’m considering shaving my head and getting a pair of antlers tatooed on it. I thought I was indulging in black humour when I drew comparisons between the progress of Ghana toward democracy, and the current UK election. I really … Continue reading
Right
The Independent are continuing, in this case once more through Johann Hari, to prove themselves unusual in the UK print media. Hari’s article is a needed one; there were, indeed, five years of slightly shoddy, British-Rail-sandwich Labourism before Blair got … Continue reading
