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.
After the Rose Garden - 2 - Reliability
No-one knows where Trump’s on-again-off again tariffs are going to end up. The only certain thing is that the rest of the world is in for an overdose of once-bitten-twice-shy, scrabbling for new supply-chains and trade relations amid a general atmosphere of increased distrust.
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.
Taking Birmingham private
It has been enthralling in a ghoulish way to watch Birmingham descend into a chaos of rat-riddled rubbish.
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.
Pothole policy
Spending on people usually commands more attention from the political process than does spending on things.
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.
AI, not Tariffs, is the Future of U.S. Economic Dominance
The Trump administration’s weird obsession with tariffs, which started as a serious policy that merited serious treatment, has gradually degenerated into something of a punch line among technologists and businesspeople alike over the last two weeks.