Fumbling towards catastrophe
Last week local elections were held in the UK, mainly for district and unitary authority councils in England but also for the Welsh and Scottish parliaments. For the second time, Reform UK gained majorities...
Category: Recession / Credit Crunch
Baby boomers didn’t cause all the world’s problems
Yesterday, on the Jeremy Vine news discussion programme on Radio 2, they were discussing the proposition that the “baby boomers” (the generation born within about 20 years after the end of World War II)...
BBC bashes benefit claimants two weeks running
I’m a little late writing about this, but I watched John Humphries’ programme on BBC2, The Future State of Welfare, a few days after it was broadcast (I was working a night shift the...
Exciting times to be out of a job
Train company is to cut 300 jobs Southeastern trains [which operates trains in south-east London and Kent] is to make 300 people redundant over the coming year. The company blamed "reduced passenger journey growth"...