Now that Professor Richard Murphy of the Tax Justice Network is winning the argument on tax maybe some of Ezra Pound’s critics will have a rethink. Professor Murphy has just posted a message on his site in which he says: A government running out of money is as likely as us running out of miles Whilst this […]
BBVA and Sutor Bank Join the Open Banking Movement
Chips Hardy (father of Tom Hardy) has written an excellent play about a wounded British soldier. Badly wounded in action by friendly fire, army veteran Moss lives in a small flat with his highly- strung nephew Carver. When Marta, a young Eastern European carer, enters their tiny world the results are as disruptive as they […]
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According to They Work for You new DWP Chief Stephen Crabb took £2,000 off a Goldman Sachs Director, Lord Griffiths, in June 2015. Welshman Lord Griffiths is also a Director of Rupert Murdoch’s Times. Before joining Goldman, Lord Griffiths was Mrs Thatcher’s Chief Strategy in the 80’s. Despite repeatedly voting for cuts to disability benefit Crabb has […]
Trump must be happy coming across as a remorselessly American buffoon — embodying America’s economic & psychological bravado & its associated insecurity. Arthur Koestler, in his 1964 book, The Act of Creation, claims the Joker intermediates between the Artist & the Scientist. Like the child in the Emperor’s New Clothes & Shakespeare’s Fool, Trump […]
Multimillionaire Mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has voted to cut disability benefit by £30 a week despite being a patron of a local disability charity. According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times, Goldsmith has been a patron of Richmond Aid since March 2011. Campaigners are asking how he can remain patron of the charity while taking […]
According to the Independent wealthy London Mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has just voted to cut disability benefit by £30 per week. When asked if his money stops him from understanding normal people, Goldsmith usually says that he was dealt a good hand in life but that he does what he can to help people.
Advice from House of Cards Author Michael Dobbs from today’s Telegraph