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IF PROOF WERE EVER NEEDED
In one of my recent posts (‘Energy and the Dismal Science’) I said that “our complex society … doesn’t work – it just doesn’t work – unless the economy grows consistently and reliably at around 3% per year … without economic growth the system starts to implode, and pretty quickly at that; honest.” If proof were […]
JUST FOR VICTORIA AND MARY
… my daughter Mary reminded me recently that one of the themes of this weblog must include, just must include things that make Dad Moraymint happy … things like this, Mary: … so, should I take Mum Moraymint to go see Curtis Stigers in concert in May? Like the man says, I love you all […]
COR BLIMEY … IT’S NOT JUST ME
… who thinks that the European Union is a very dodgy organisation indeed:
THE EUROPEAN UNION CRANKS UP THE SOCIALIST-FASCISM
You’ll see from some of my other posts here that I’m no great fan of the European Union: it really is nothing less than a ‘soft dictatorship’, with tens of thousands of unelected, extremely well-paid and institutionally corrupt apparatchiks (about 45,000 at the last count according to Craig & Elliott in their book “The Great […]
ENERGY AND THE DISMAL SCIENCE
The man on the Clapham omnibus is unlikely to have heard of Tullett Prebon. Tullett Prebon is an inter-dealer broker in the wholesale financial markets; Tullett Prebon acts as a link between firms to enable them to trade with each other anonymously; its brokers are the fast-talking middlemen who match buyers and sellers of complex […]
THE LONG DESCENT INTO POTHOLES
Potholes are in the news at the moment (see for example the link below). One of the themes that I shall cover in the essays (letter) to my children will be the ‘crisis of capital’ that comes with the end of mankind’s era of industrial-age rates of economic growth. Economic stagnation or, worse, economic contraction […]
STATE BULLYING
As I understand it, according to the classical music purists, Classic FM is for philistines. So be it. Notwithstanding, here at Castle Moraymint we do listen to Classic FM where we refer to it as ‘nursery rhymes for grown-ups’. It’s comforting listening to popular classical pieces (or usually parts thereof) being played time and again. […]
SOMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING – PART I
Essay # 1 It’s the second decade of the 21st century and something strange is happening to our society; strange and potentially threatening. Incidentally, don’t get hung up on that word “threatening”; we’ll end this essay on a comforting note. If I’m right to declare this then I want you, my children, to have some […]
EASYJET – I’M WITH SIR STELIOS
Sir Stelios threatens to sell family stake in fresh easyJet row (Daily Telegraph Article: link below) Just a quickie, as they say. So, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou says he has become “increasingly concerned” at easyJet’s growth plans which he claims are centred on an “expansion at any cost policy” with directors “squandering” cash on new aircraft. Spot on […]
TODAY’S THE DAY
Today – Monday 21 January 2013 – I decided to abandon commenting on the Daily Telegraph’s website, where I’ve been commenting for several years now, and to focus sharing my thoughts here on my own blog. I’ve left this blog dormant for some months, but I shall crank it up over the coming days and weeks. I […]
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