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A BRACE of FUDGE-IT BUDGETS

Posted on October 29, 2024 by davidsberry

Febrile media speculation surrounding this Wednesday’s UK budget has been deafening. Starting with what Rachel Reeves, new Chancellor in a new labour, as opposed to New Labour, government’s “discovery” of a £20 billion ‘black hole’ in the country’s finances, speculation … Continue reading →

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Boardroom Banditry

Posted on August 24, 2023 by davidsberry

The last few years have not been kind to Joe Punter. After two decades of growing prosperity in the aftermath of the Thatcherite 1988 stock market “Big Bang”, Harry Enfield’s “Loadsamoney” satire came uncomfortably close to reality. Then “Prudence” Brown, … Continue reading →

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A Long Way to Tipperary

Posted on June 10, 2023 by davidsberry

Don’t tell the jingoists, but the “great” in Great Britain is not some accolade of national superiority but a geographic term. As the island stretches over 80,000 square miles and the French peninsula of Britany only covers a bare 13,000, … Continue reading →

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R.A.S. Puttin

Posted on February 26, 2023 by davidsberry

The first anniversary of Putin’s “Special Military Operation” to envelop Ukraine back in the arms of Mother Russia has been the focus of much media attention. However, most of it has focussed on plucky and resolute Ukraine and the unexpected … Continue reading →

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In Truss We God—2

Posted on October 4, 2022 by davidsberry

No’ Sae Green As We’re Cabbage-Lookin’ “I have never seen the shine come off a new government as quickly as it has here.” —Channel 4 Political Editor at the Tory Conference, Oct. 3rd 2022 As a measure of the fiscal … Continue reading →

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Ivan to Go Home—V

Posted on September 18, 2022 by davidsberry

“The Russian Army is a boxer who has a great right hook and a glass jaw.” —Phillips O’Brien, Prof. of Strategic Studies, St Andrews University The Ukrainian offensive that began around Kherson in the South at the end of August … Continue reading →

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This Fratricidal War

Posted on March 17, 2022 by davidsberry

After three weeks of the most brutal and extensive war we have witnessed since World War 2, Western media has been reporting extensively on human tragedies behind the lines in Ukraine and Russian state media has been spinning fake news … Continue reading →

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The Road to Scindy III—Councils As Partners

Posted on December 7, 2021 by davidsberry

On Thursday, December 9th, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes will present a budget to the Scottish Parliament. A couple of goodies have been trailed in Nicola Sturgeon’s speech to the SNP Conference in November, including a doubling of child benefit from … Continue reading →

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Videotracks of Our Lives

Posted on November 7, 2021 by davidsberry

Given the myriad of channels through which it is now delivered, the very dame “film” has become a misnomer, verging on the archaic. But for a century, it has been the prime means of mass communication around the globe, surviving … Continue reading →

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Those Who Walk on Water: III—Boris Johnson

Posted on October 30, 2021 by davidsberry

“This Budget will deliver a stronger economy for the whole of the UK. We’re building back better from the pandemic with a more innovative, high skill and high wage economy that will level up across the country.” —Tweet from Boris … Continue reading →

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