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.
Is Trump an insider trader?
The Securities and Exchange Commission says insider trading occurs when an investor knows of ‘material nonpublic information’ and then uses that information in violation of a duty to refrain from trading or sharing the knowledge.
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.
Theory of Moral Sentiments Anniversary - 2025
Many people are familiar with Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (WoN), But Smith’s ethical thinking was just as important.
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.