Friday, 3 June 2022
Reflections on working from home
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One of the most widely discussed societal impacts of Covid, mentioned on p.121 of the latest edition of my book, has been the shift from wor...
Sunday, 27 March 2022
P&O and Priestley's prophecy
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In successive editions of my book since the second and including the latest, fifth, one, I have included the firm P&O in a long list of ...
Sunday, 13 February 2022
Electric blues
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Over eight years ago, in 2013, I wrote a post on this blog about the absurdity of a supposedly competitive market for electricity, and ener...
Friday, 16 April 2021
The Greensill scandal
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The growing scandal in the UK over corporate lobbing of government – which has implicated the former Prime Minister David Cameron as well ...
Sunday, 28 June 2020
Steel stories
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I’ve recently read two extraordinary and, I suppose, largely forgotten novels, both published in the early 1940s, and both three-generationa...
Saturday, 11 April 2020
The coronavirus crisis
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This blog has been sadly neglected in recent years, as all my blogging time and energy have been taken up with my Brexit Blog . But the curr...
Thursday, 2 May 2019
An undeveloping country?
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A House of Lords report this week has concluded that forensic science in England and Wales is “in crisis” and “has now reached breaking poi...
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