Qatar World Cup Stuff
In early 2021 The Guardian published an investigation into the fate of some of the many migrant workers that were recruited mainly from the Indian sub-continent to help with the construction of the stadia and other infrastructure. The results were shocking in that the estimate of deaths was put at just over 6,500 since work […]
Funny
The Truss/Kamikaze Mini Budget
It was a course a cocky, arrogant and ill thought out event. The thing that amazes me more than the contents though is the fact that these two newly elected politicians just took all the decisions on their own – not even a sniff of cabinet government. The way the media reported the market reaction […]
Truss
She is obviously acutely aware of the Power of Three. The first time I became aware of it was listening to an analysis of Neil Kinnock’s brilliant speech in 1985 when we first got a glimpse of someone who could defeat Thatcher. Thing is though, Truss used it without any subtlety ….
Note to self (hard disk drives)
We have just replaced our main PC (which Chris subsumed into her Home Office at the start of lockdown) with an amazingly tiny successor known as a NUC (Next Unit of Computing). Not only is this about the same size as a paperback book but is virtually silent, consumes next to no power, has more […]
Cringe
Liz Truss has just unveiled her new ‘Disrupter’ image at the Tory Conference – yuck !
What a difference 4 years make
It was 2018 when I went to listen to John McDonnell speak at the last Labour Conference that was held in Liverpool and it is hard to believe now that he still had a year to serve as Shadow Chancellor before going into full panic mode in the 2019 General Election and promising free broadband […]
Labour Leader
Why oh why can’t we have a charismatic leader of the Labour party ? I have always been doubtful about how well Keir Starmer would do taking the fight to the Tories despite the fact that there he has faced an open goal once Boris showed his true colours. Then when the then Shadow Solicitor […]
Dover Congestion
It is hard to believe how many people have just jumped to the wrong conclusion about what is behind the congestion in Dover. Yes it is a result of Brexit but only because Brexit gave us the option to stamp passports. For some reason (presumably security related) we chose to require them to be stamped. […]
Tory Leadership
Quite pleased that Liz Truss beat Penny Mordaunt to face Fishy Rishi as there were a few bits of Penny’s policies that seemed quite reasonable. At least now it looks like there will be another Conservative PM to dislike so business as usual …..