Ralph Musgrave‘s economics blog makes a case for a program of time-limited payments to companies who hire the unemployed, although I’m not sure if Musgrave is thinking of it as a permanent feature of the welfare state rather than an emergency response to depression. I might quibble with a couple of aspects – for example,…
Read More an original idea? the archive is full of ‘emFollowing up on intemperate twitter feuds seems to have become a theme around here. I had a lengthy set-to with Pawel Morski about voting for Ken Livingstone, in which I pointed out that Ken was right about Iraq, that in general being right about Iraq should be rewarded, and being wrong about Iraq should be…
Read More Balls to the BankHere’s the list of talks that Gareth Williams might have attended at BlackHat 2010. The slides are here. I wonder if he got the “I’m the Fed” t-shirt?
Read More Death by powerpoint, for realFrom the archive, George Pascoe-Watson in 2006, on just what a hands-off manager Rupert Murdoch was.
Read More filed for reference and indeed referred toPaul Klee’s students apparently celebrated his 50th birthday by dropping presents through his (flat) roof at the Bauhaus from a Junkers aircraft. An interesting story, although Mark Brown doesn’t pick up on it (Rowan Moore does here but only superficially). Junkers was the home-town industry of Dessau by then, which is probably why the students…
Read More Birthday present bomberAnother thought, in the light of my last post and this one, is that the Murdoch wars have been effective because they get to the Tories’ System One, kinaesthetic, internalised skills, just in a context where they are unhelpful. It’s cricket, really – it’s all about trying to identify the circumstances where the batsman’s initial,…
Read More howizzhe!!!!?So I was having a minor row on twitter with Adam Bienkov the other day, about whether the Labour Party was right to put so much effort into attacking the Murdoch Party and especially the Secretary of State for Hulture. I think the London mayoral election shows I was right, for reasons that ought to…
Read More why the London election means we should…Rebuttal is futile, but sometimes it is necessary, and at least you can help people update their lists of people to ignore. Here’s Zoe Williams wilfully misleading the readers. From two completely different sources – Ted Reilly, a road safety campaigner, and Alice Bell, a lecturer in science and society and part-time Sack Boris campaigner…
Read More All mayors are not the same. All columnists, however…David Cameron goes trying to sell Airbus A330s. In his chartered Boeing. Chartered, eventually, from an Angolan company on the EU air safety blacklist.
Read More why yes, they could fuck it upHere’s something interesting. Who knew A4e had a secondary charity it gave money to, that also does public sector work and that also employs Emma Harrison and all her mates? It’s like that point in the con where you start setting up another scheme with the money out of the first one. Meanwhile, this has…
Read More the difference is that you put your money back into this one!