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For the removal of all doubt

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during his appearance on “10 O’clock Live” Bob Crow has proved himself an utter idiot. His genius idea for solving the current financial crisis (it was all caused by the bankers don’t you know, not by years of Government borrowing)is …. a tax on e-mail. He reckons that charging just a penny per e-mail would solve the whole fiscal dilemma we find ourselves in, after all which would we rather a mere penny per e-mail or to lose meals-on-wheels and hospitals. So lets just ignore how on earth you’d actually collect such a tax, or what you’d do about all … Continue reading →

Make Room! Make Room!

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Guido has done a rather nice job of highlighting the hypocrisy of George Monbiot’s latest article suggesting that people should be “encouraged” to make sure as many people live in their house as possible. From his proposals I assume he’s recently discovered the works Harry Harrison, perhaps it was on telly over Christmas. So anyway I’m going to ignore the hypocrisy as that seems to be fairly typical of such pundits suggesting people be made to take actions they haven’t taken themselves. What puzzles me more is his idea of “housing footprints”, which he describes thus: “Your housing footprint is … Continue reading →

Student tantrum revisited

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As articles about the student protests/tantrums and the evil changes to their funding abound, I find myself increasingly confused by the whole matter. The Independent reports that only a quarter of the students are expected to actually pay off their loans, which would seem to put the whole change in funding firmly into the “book keeping trick” category, as the bulk of the funding will still come from taxes covering the loans but the government can at least claim it’s all loans. In the meantime apart from keeping the cost off the governments books for a bit it would seem … Continue reading →