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Friday, 2 February 2018

Brexit - the fork in the road

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The fork in the road ahead is within sight. And now is when the Brexit saboteurs go into overdrive, and we get distractions such as that ...
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Thursday, 1 February 2018

Postscript: Crapita and Smart Meters

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Just a swift PS to the post below; it turns out that the whole infrastructure of smart gas and electric meters (new generation of which will...
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Wednesday, 31 January 2018

Smart meters will hurt the just coping

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The Mail carries a story today that reveals the electricity companies are recruiting charity muggers - chuggers - to doorstep householders ...
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Monday, 29 January 2018

Lords abolition - options

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If it's not clear now, it will become astoundingly clear to the nation over the next few weeks that we must abolish the Lords in the for...
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Friday, 26 January 2018

Crime up: Plod can go back to work.

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There is no direct link between the number of police officers in post and the number of crimes committed. If this were the case, police numb...
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Thursday, 25 January 2018

Internationalism vs Globalisation

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As comments to the post below demonstrate, words matter. I am a patriot, not a nationalist. I am both British and European. I am both enligh...
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Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Are we negotiating the wrong Brexit?

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Trade and commerce post Brexit has been the core of all discussion since 2016. But when it's discussed, what is discussed is B2B - bulk ...
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Monday, 22 January 2018

Indirect Fire

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I like stories about Russian ingenuity. I know they're probably not true, but they really ought to be. NASA spent five years and forty m...
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Sunday, 21 January 2018

Diehard Remoaners will drop to 15%

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The polling is becoming consistent. Michael Ashcroft, a businessman from Belize who takes an interest in British politics, has recently carr...
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Thursday, 18 January 2018

The dangers of the media echo chamber

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We have moved into an age in which the traditional news media no longer merely report the news but seek to shape it. Newspapers and broadcas...
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018

EU to ban stun fishing. For the second time

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The EU's identity as a corrupt but inept bureaucracy was confirmed yesterday as French, Belgian, Irish and British MEPs dealt a kick to ...
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Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Carillion - sub contractors and suppliers

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For the construction arm far more than the FM concerns, intelligent journos have started to pick up on the impact of the firm's collapse...
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Monday, 15 January 2018

When construction pigeons come home to roost

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Balfour Beatty must be breathing a sigh of relief this morning that Carillion's recent takeover bid was not successful. BB was lined up ...
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Sunday, 14 January 2018

Brexit - FAQs

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Given that Project Fear is achieving peak risible on social media, now may be an appropriate moment to answer a few Remoaner points; Brexi...
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Friday, 12 January 2018

Winning back the seas

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For a nation with links to the sea as strong as the UK, nothing raises such visceral protectiveness as our territorial waters and fish. Oh s...
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Thursday, 11 January 2018

Impress and Ipso

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This is a story in which there are no heroes, only villains. Press 'regulation' does absolutely nothing to eliminate fake news, bias...
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Monday, 8 January 2018

Tax funding for political parties ... again

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Yep you guessed. The political establishment is gearing up to have another go at getting tax funding of the established parties onto the sta...
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Friday, 5 January 2018

Raw Water

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I never fail to get a chuckle here when I describe my old drinking water supply in London; through a series of sewage treatment works and re...
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Thursday, 4 January 2018

Lamont: Blair's argument "completely fraudulent"

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Pilots will correct me, but I think the speed / runway distance during an aircraft's take off at which it is no longer possible to abort...
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Tuesday, 2 January 2018

The right to insult

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In 2008 when visiting an agricultural show, the then President of the Fifth Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, was refused a handshake by a French f...
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