Dick the Butcher had a point
We list these achievements not to boorishly hark back to our country’s former glory, but to remind us how prosperity was painstakingly built – brick by brick, track by track – to inspire us to look forward with hope and possibility.
When the facts change I change my mind - Pray, what do you do, Sir?
As we all know one of the exceptions to free trade, all free trade, all the time free trade, is national security.
This is the point of it all - knitting bobble hats for post boxes
This could be viewed as a little reductionist, even concentrating too much on a tiny detail, but the entire point of this whole civilisation thing is to knit bobble hats for post boxes.
But, but, this is the very point of tariffs
Do tariffs allow an outbreak of capitalist greed? The Lizzie Warren explanation? Well, actually, yes.
They don’t like competition these capitalists, don’t like it up ‘em
It is competition in a free marketplace - free in the sense that others may enter - that turns that greed driven capitalism to the consumer benefit.
Well, yes, we suppose it is the Home Counties
In our more dyspeptic moments we end up insisting that the Town and Country Planning Act, the entire idea of the Green Belt, is simply to make sure that none of these awful working class people, those proles, get to do anything in those rolling and admittedly lovely green acres of England.
If only Owen Jones could join the dots….
So, everything should be nationalised and run as an economic democracy. This is the rallying call at least.
One of our favourite, if odd, ideas
As rather the originators of the privatisation idea - based upon the clear observation that the British State could not succeessfully squeeze a wet teabag - it is possible for people to question the idea.
If we could suggest an alternative to this Mazzonomics idea?
This thought that we should endow governance with the powers to do really useful cross-cutting strategic planning with strict conditionality.
The British don’t live like Europeans because the planners won’t let the British live like Europeans
As we all know we’re told that we should live more like Europeans. In flats. You know, stack-a-prole worker flats because that’s communal, social, and that protects our precious natural countryside.
Weight Watchers is looking a little anaemic, anorexic even
We do take this to be a part of how the whole capitalism, markets, technological cycle works. We have some reasonable solution to a perceived human need or want. Businesses start up to provide that solution.