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AUSTERITY FOR SOME AND NOT OTHERS
I was taken by The Taxpayers’ Alliance’s (TPA) observation about the latest growth figures for the UK economy. I’ll let the TPA’s Chief Executive (Matthew Elliott) speak for himself: “Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that they think the economy is growing again – by 0.3% in the first quarter of this year. […]
MORAY: A PIECE OF THE PEACE ACTION
Never too sure about studies like these, but here goes anyway. The Institute for Economics and Peace (oh dear) has just published its first ‘UK Peace Index’ (oh dear, oh dear) and are pleased to inform us residents of Moray that we live in the 3rd most peaceful area of Scotland, after the Orkney Islands […]
WHITHER INDEPENDENCE FOR SCOTLAND
In many vexed situations there comes a time when you’ve got to lay your cards on the table, so to speak. Observing today’s flurry of interest in the question of Scotland’s independence I felt moved to pen a few lines during tea break. I’m all for localisation and for power being devolved as far down […]
LIFE IN ATHENS
Just wanted to re-blog a piece by John Ward who runs ‘The Slog’ website; it speaks for itself: CRISIS ATHENS: How austerity is destroying those who would compete with multinational power.
JEREMY WARNER VERSUS MORAYMINT – AGAIN
Jeremy Warner is an excellent business and economics journalist who works for the Daily Telegraph; I always read what he has to say. Generally I concur with his analyses and conclusions. However, there is one fundamental issue on which I profoundly disagree with Mr Warner. Take his article in today’s Daily Telegraph “J M Keynes’ […]
TAX EVASION
“I’m expecting to receive this much dosh from taxpayers for doing bugger all for 3 years after I lose my job. So don’t you dare try to evade paying your taxes, serfs …”. Interesting to note that the British Government is leading a charge against tax evasion by signing the UK up to an “information […]
CHAOS AT HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS
Front page news in the Daily Telegraph today (link below) and billed online as ‘Chaos over biggest employment tax shake-up in 70 years‘. The Daily Telegraph informs us that “under the new ‘Real Time Information’ (RTI) system, more than a million businesses – as well as charities, churches and families who employ nannies or cleaners […]
THE EURO GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
Over at the Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Warner has been making observations about certain countries’ appetite to join that success-story-of-all-success-stories, the euro currency (link below). Apparently, Poland’s Prime Minister is now itching to sign up his own star-struck citizens. How is it that the euro currency can be so popular, so desirable? Well, it’s important to […]
LIFE UNDER RULE OF THE TROIKA
This is how it is when you wake up one day to find that your country is being ruled by some mob operating from a foreign land where, in this case, the mob is a cohort of bureaucrats and bankers, being the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, aka ‘The […]
UNQUANTIFIABLE PREMIUM ON CASH
Been on the road all day today, just back to the peace of the Moray Firth. Checking the wires, so to speak, and according to Tyler Durden over at Zero Hedge, if you’re a Cypriot citizen, as of tomorrow, there is “an unquantifiable premium for having physical cash over electronic. Learn from it.” As ever, […]
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