I have stated my  views on Andrew Cooper (Deputy) already, but here they are again. Andrew Cooper has been a councillor in Kirklees for 18 years. (Kirklees = Greater Huddersfield, but […]

My main concern is the need to elect Andrew Cooper as Deputy Leader, and Liz Reason as Chair of GPex. But first, the main Leadership contest. My weblog of 16.6.2016 […]

The Heathrow runway is short term sense, but long term eco-lunacy. Correction: not to build it is short term idiocy. Which brings me to Professor Macmillan’s war hypothesis. The Tragedy […]

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 […]