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- @JacksonT0ny @t_spacebrothers Well there is that, yes. Only the Vox mix of Legacy has all the words and if you miss… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- I doubt it would be the Queen's choice of music but I like the story behind it and it conveys so much in few words. Like all good poetry. 9 hours ago
- @JacksonT0ny @t_spacebrothers That whole album is great. 9 hours ago
- The back-story is here. Space Brother @rickysimmonds (of Grange Hill fame) wrote it about his mum and dad. The firs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- Lyrics below: https://t.co/hHLTflB0ww 10 hours ago
- Trance isn't a genre you usually associate with profound lyrics but this @t_spacebrothers track contains some beaut… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 10 hours ago
- In other words, if the prime minister is a mendacious self-serving popinjay, the whole system is buggered! https://t.co/TusU3vFh6f 10 hours ago
- Good @robertshrimsley piece on the chumocracy. ft.com/content/4362e6… 10 hours ago
- Bigger problem here is councils selling off land to anyone who will take it off their hands and reduce their mainte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 10 hours ago
- @Otto_English Blimey. America is going to look a bit different then. https://t.co/04SmUPTYuJ 11 hours ago
- RT @MWStory: It's fascinating and terrible that this happened and I'm massively curious about why. What are the epistemic norms which produ… 12 hours ago
- RT @DmitryOpines: @OskarNicholson No, loyalists would get angry because the EU would have to impose even stricter checks on products enteri… 19 hours ago
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Shoesmith didn’t get a fair hearing, so now we count the cost!
News of Sharon Shoesmith’s six-figure payout caused an outbreak of spluttering rage yesterday. Once the Court of Appeal had ruled in her favour, though, a large payout was never in any doubt. Politicians on all sides are ranting about it … Continue reading
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Why you have to love blogging
I try not to blog about blogging, it’s a bit disappear-up-your-own-backside, but a couple of things happened recently that made me stop and reflect. The first was the death of Norman Geras a couple of weeks ago. I remember how he … Continue reading
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Politicians want to be ‘tough on welfare’ but welfare is a stubborn opponent
Everybody wants to be tough on welfare these days. Even the new shadow work and pensions secretary felt the need to frame her party’s jobs guarantee scheme as tough on welfare. The thing is, you can’t be tough on an abstraction. … Continue reading
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Jeremy Hunt’s granny-friendly societies
Tory politicians spent the weekend telling us that we should be more like the Chinese. Fresh from his recent visit, a starry-eyed George Osborne praised China while dismissing Britain as defeatist and second-rate. (In the space of just over a year, … Continue reading
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What future for Britain’s ‘rustbelt’ towns?
A couple of articles in the Economist upset a lot of people at the weekend. The paper suggested that there was no point in trying to save some of Britain’s former industrial towns. Instead, they should be allowed to decline … Continue reading
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Now, George, about this surplus
At the Conservative conference, George Osborne announced that, assuming his party is re-elected, he is planning to achieve an ‘absolute budget surplus’ by 2020. This is different from his last promise to eliminate the structural deficit, which left plenty of … Continue reading
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Global Greying and the Economics of Abundance
The good folk at Pieria asked me to write a piece on demographics, so I did. Last week, also on Pieria, John Aziz wrote this on ‘The Economics of Abundance’: As the march of the robots continues, society and big … Continue reading
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Time to move the government out of London
“There’s no point trying to live in London,” said the FT’s Christian Oliver at the weekend, after he had spent a miserable afternoon looking for a house to buy in Bromley. It’s the latest in a series of warnings about … Continue reading
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