Let’s stop pretending that Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain Party and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are running different agendas. It is already clear that they co-exist
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Condemning ourselves to decline
Phillip Inman’s column in the Guardian on Saturday made a familiar argument. “Don’t be fooled by recent good news”, he said. “The UK economy is
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Governments aren’t like households
Politicians keep telling us the government must “live within its means” like a household. That idea is wrong. It is also dangerous. In this video,
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Birding…
It was this sort of day at Titchwell on the North Norfolk coast: And this sort of day: And on the beach, once you walked
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New glossary entry: health
To link to this morning’s video, I have published this new glossary entry: Health is the capacity to heal, by which I mean the ability
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Retreating
I was going to write a piece this morning about why discussing removing Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as eighth in line to the throne appears to
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New glossary entry: the economics of failure
The destination of the politics of destruction is the economics of failure. It now appears in this blog’s glossary. The “economics of failure” is the
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Is Big Pharma capturing the NHS?
Medicine sits where fear meets trust, and Big Pharma – the companies that make up the Medical Industrial Complex – know that. In this video,
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Mallards
This is not one of mine. Thomas edits photos better than I do. This is one of his from Welney this morning. Three mallards in
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