Category Archives: Commerce

Light of the Charge Brigade

Posted on November 6, 2022 by davidsberry

COP27 launched today in an atmosphere of bleak resignation that 1.5 degree warming is a myth and the current 2,8 esyimate will drown thousands and displace millions. Now that Sunak is attending, his government’s claim to still be going green … Continue reading →

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Desert Island Dosh

Posted on October 24, 2022 by davidsberry

“Offshore is not only a place, an idea, a weapon of the finance industry it is also a process, a race to the bottom to where the rules laws and outward signs of democracy are worn away.”. —Nicholas Shackson This … Continue reading →

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In Truss We God—3

Posted on October 5, 2022 by davidsberry

Not Just Straws—Whole Haystacks in the Wind If Ms Truss believes what she has set out in three short weeks to be her doctrinal destiny, she should consider how deep the swamp of unpopularity is to which it leads:  While … Continue reading →

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In Truss We God—1

Posted on October 3, 2022 by davidsberry

The late Queen’s last state act in seven decades of many state acts was to ask Liz Truss to (re)form a Conservative government. While Boris managed to have a high international profile (and not always for the right reasons), Liz … Continue reading →

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Union Myth-take 1

Posted on October 2, 2022 by davidsberry

(This bog was originally published in June, but for reasons best known to WordPress, has since disappeared.) “UK Has the Fastest Growth in the G7.” —Prime Minister Boris Johnson Brexit bred much uncertainty, adding to the constraints of life under … Continue reading →

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A Right Wunch of…

Posted on September 27, 2022 by davidsberry

“I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more to the British economy than Bob Crow (the RTM union leader) could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer”. —UK … Continue reading →

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Low Budget

Posted on September 24, 2022 by davidsberry

“I can’t be broke; I still have plenty of cheques.” —Eric Sykes in BBC’s Sykes,1972 Citing events of a half-century go is not as irrelevant to Friday’s “mini” budget as you might think. In a three-hour session in parliament when … Continue reading →

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C’est Magnifique, mais Ce n’est pas la Gloire

Posted on September 19, 2022 by davidsberry

With apologies to Le Maréchal Pierre Bosquet’s observation on the Charge of the Light Brigade, this seems an apt comment on today’s spectacle of the Queen’s funeral. There is no question that it was spectacular, nor that the Queen had … Continue reading →

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Union Myth-Take 6

Posted on August 26, 2022 by davidsberry

“Few nations are better placed to navigate the challenges ahead,” —Boris Johnson This typically bullish Boris Johnson assertion in the March 2021 Global Britain in a competitive age publication has yet to be realised 18 months later. The most cursory … Continue reading →

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Union Myth-Take 5

Posted on August 21, 2022 by davidsberry

“The case for independence has been swallowed up by a £14bn North Sea black hole.” This quote from unionists in 2016 was based on a fall of 97% in tax revenues from North Sea Oil from £1.8bn in 2015 to … Continue reading →

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