When people meet, almost the first question is ‘What do you do? The answer establishes status and assists in deciding if there are common interests….
When people meet, almost the first question is ‘What do you do? The answer establishes status and assists in deciding if there are common interests….
How many people love watching The Repair Shop on television? You know it’s true. We love healing, we love mending and, if we can start a culture…
Whether pensioners are over-privileged – pensions triple lock, politically favoured because they vote in large numbers, etc, etc – is a subject of almost constant…
Big data. It’s suddenly being discussed everywhere. Including York at the Big Tent event there a couple of weeks ago – when the celebrated NHS blogger Roy Lilley chaired a panel…
My personal experience of regeneration is that my job is two-fold. My job is that I am an exorcist. I’m not joking. I go to places like mid-Cornwall,…
For some tie, I have been arguing that inflation is driven by inequality. So I was fascinated to see the report that ‘Salary hikes are…
Many people ask me what “people powered homes” are. It started as a by-line for the first community share offer as Leeds Community Homes (LCH)…
“Remember though, that earlier this year Bloomberg Economics estimated that Brexit was costing the UK economy £100bn a year in lost output. Reversing or ameliorating…
The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the…
There are those among us – me included – who so dislike technocracy and technocrats in general that we would probably opt for populism, almost…
Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers…