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We all popped into Hereford today, to buy some creosote to get over my clothes and into my eyes and also to some extent on our ricketty backyard fence. Also, I planned to visit the Hereford HSBC branch while we were there. My old Mum was kind enough to send me a cheque for my recent birthday, scraped together out of her meagre pension, . . . → Read More: Radio HSBC  It has been a very interesting experience making the programme for Radio Four about the North/South divide. As I followed the line across England on the map drawn up by Prof. Danny Dorling of Sheffield University, I became convinced that the divide, unsurpisingly really, has some substance. Mostly, though, I was struck by the fact that many of these divisions have roots deep in . . . → Read More: Us (us us us us) and Them (them them them them) I think this blog is going to be about economics. I’m not an economist. But since they seem to know bugger all anyway, I don’t see why any entirely unqualified bloke-in-the-pub shouldn’t chip in, and make just as little sense as anyone else.
The global economy is almost five times the size it was half a century ago. If it continues to grow . . . → Read More: HSBC and the virtue of profit. I like a nice Royal wedding, me. To be honest, I quite like weddings per se. But I’m the father of daughters, and I think I’d worry a lot if one of my girls had not lived with a partner before taking the plunge, so, as if it were any of my business, it looks like a major step forward that William and . . . → Read More: Off with their heads… So, today it’s all been about constitutional and electoral reform. The New Party promise to deliver the things they promised to deliver 13 years ago with a majority of 160. The flagship idea is a referendum on the Alternative Vote, which is not proportionate, and which would favour the New Party themselves, and another on Lords reform, which they could have delivered a long . . . → Read More: Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism |
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