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Does Government Have a Revenue or Spending Problem? 22 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
An excellent video summarising where the real problem lies: US figures, obviously. As Tom Paine points out {brief tip of the hat to Mr P}, good luck finding a British academic with a similar economic...
Why do all politicians sound the same? 9 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
My MP Steve Baker has linked to this video, to explain why all politicians end up saying the same thing: I've commented there to explain that while this is a persuasive theory, and explained well, it...
Hello again! 22 Jul 2013 | 10:41 pm
So, what does it take to wake me from my blogging slumber? A broken aircon unit making work "impossible" (according to Labour MPs, how would they know??) certainly helps. A Royal baby? No. A move to...
That Conservative Party Draft EU Bill In Full... 15 May 2013 | 12:26 am
DRAFT European Union (Referendum) Bill A BILL TO Make provision for the holding of a referendum in the United Kingdom on the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the European Union. Be it ena...
In defence of free and open speech 6 May 2013 | 10:31 pm
Stephen Fry, on respect for others in the language we use and on the need to prevent language being directed and used against specific groups. A salutary reminder. The letter home that he quotes is ...
The reality of business in the UK 1 May 2013 | 04:09 pm
My practice has now been trading for exactly a year, as of today (yay!). So I thought I'd look back at where the spoils went. Now, you will all know my views by now. So I was (I admit) expecting a ...
She snatched my milk 8 Apr 2013 | 10:44 pm
I was at primary school in the 1970s, and I remember school milk. It used to arrived in little half-height crates filled with little glass bottles that looked like real milk bottles but smaller - I a...
A thought 26 Mar 2013 | 12:54 pm
So, nurses are to be forced to spend a year wiping bottoms so that we can make sure that they are suitably caring people to become nurses. I can see the sentiment, and agree with it. But the means s...
RIP my Mum 10 Mar 2013 | 09:55 pm
As the phrase goes, her long battle with cancer ended today, Mothers' Day, leaving her now in peace. But there was so much more to her life than the way it ended. A dedicated primary school teacher of...
Why we should all worry about worrying about being tracked online 12 Feb 2013 | 01:54 pm
The Grauniad has published a fairly sensible article about online privacy. Yes, relax, I really did say that, but it's a technical topic not a political one, so I'm not going soft. They point to a n...
