I look forward with interest to Margaret Macmillan’s BBC Reith Lectures on why humans fight, starting next Tuesday  26th June. Does she mention the Tragedy of the Commons? It does […]

This time it’s the National Audit Office – the government’s own watchdog condemning the Universal Credit. This is an opportunity for the Green Party to bring the unconditional basic (Citizens’) […]

At last! Someone else explaining the main reason for a Universal basic income (UBI). Now in the Guardian, will it finally go viral? My weblog certainly hasn’t done the trick. […]

Nothing illuminates the distinction between unassailable short term commercial logic and long term lunacy more clearly than these two examples, but the first is serious. Entrepreneurs must assume that economic […]

Two years ago everybody said “Caroline’s election mustn’t be a coronation”. But it was. I think Caroline Lucas’s strategy all along was to give Jonathan Bartley an assured opportunity to […]