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Technically: It’s a Government
Italy now has an unelected government. The only other government entity in Europe to share this particular feature is the EU Commission – there’s some food for thought for you. But what happened? Why has a panel of academics been appointed to lead Italy, and what on earth is a “technical government”? A “Governo Tecnico” [...]
Awake, Alive & Dumb As Ever
You must excuse our absence, and don’t believe we haven’t been thinking about you in these intervening months. But this website had not received a good scrubbing in almost two years, and we decided we needed to step back for a moment and wipe it clean. The design is new, thank you for noticing, and [...]
Tax Freedom Day UK
Yesterday was Tax Freedom Day in the UK, and for a word about what that means I direct you to Allister Heath’s editorial in City AM today: Time to celebrate tax freedom day. As he states: “to think that every single penny earned by every single person working in the UK so far this year [...]
The End of Shopping
Is part of the subtitle of the book The Great Disruption, by Paul Gilding. I went to see him present his book at The Hub King’s Cross recently: how climate change is the new WWII (his comparison) and how it will disrupt the world as we know it. Fair enough. Notwithstanding the fact that he [...]
Paying for Education
University education has been a hot topic in the UK recently – all of us living here will have seen the protests which have been taking place since late last year. This is all because the coalition government has decided to raise university tuition fees. The current maximum a school can charge is £3’290. This [...]
