The British Empire and Ceylon
The British Empire was based on trade, not plunder, unlike many other empires. We arrived at places that had not invented the wheel and we left them with universities, hospitals […]
Economics
Zero Carbon = 90+% Population Reduction
The world is committed to Zero Net Carbon by 2050. Your politicians have done this to you without consulting you or explaining what it means. In Scotland the date has […]
Labour Election Lies about the Economy
The above list, of Labour’s policies and how they would supposedly be paid for, looks like it was put together by a 14 year old who isn’t studying economics. The […]
Brexit. Democracy under threat
The above graph is taken from the Facts4EU website, a great reference if you want the truth, instead of the Bremoan propaganda of the BBC, the Financial Times and the […]
Why is the British Government wasting £trillions?
Today we have the news that the government is approving a third runway at Heathrow. The existing two runways ran out of capacity in 1977, so the new runway will […]
Brexit. So much good news
So much noise is made about the Single Market that commentators forget that the EU forces us to be part of something much worse and much bigger. A Customs Union. […]
What does Brexit really mean?
You will be seeing a lot of discussion in the media at the moment about “Soft Brexit” and “Hard Brexit”. Please ignore it, this is just another attempt by the […]
The Jocks are utterly parasitic on English taxpayers
For many decades now Scotland’s biggest export has been people. The brightest and best bailing out so that they can make a better life in places less afflicted with the […]
The economics of Helicopter Drops
We live in interesting economic times. The world has not recovered from the 2008 recession and all the policies that governments have tried to fix this have not worked. So […]
Osborne. Stop punishing success
George Osborne is often portrayed as an arch Thatcherite, he cried at her funeral. But there is one area where he is completely at odds with the Iron Lady. She […]
Why do we have a house price bubble?
A home is somewhere for a family to live, so it should be affordable within the wages that most people earn. This is obviously not true in the UK today. […]
Inequality, the facts
Look at the above graph and you can see how wealth inequality has tumbled down. This is largely down to the huge growth in the middle class and to punishing […]