Showing posts with label incompetence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label incompetence. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2020

The British government's "Command and Control" Coronavirus omni-shambles

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The news that the 400,000 items of PPE the UK government ordered from Turkey had to be sent back is somehow befitting of an institution tha...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Inequality, injustice, social divisions and Brexit: an expression of Nihilistic rage?

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Perhaps one of the cruelest forms of psychological torture is to be educated but poor, living within an unequal and unjust society. Trappe...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Broken Britain: Brexit as a "Coup De Grace"?

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The author has written before about how many of those in favour of "Hard Brexit" see it in more esoteric, transformative terms . ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

Brexit and the parallels of WW1: a study in complacency

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For all the many commemorations of the events of the First World War that have happened in recent years, what the media have spent little ti...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Britain's economy and government since the financial crisis: a problem of short-termism

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There is ever more evidence that Britain is a country running on "borrowed time". Economic short-termism  Since the financial...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Theresa May: Britain's worst Prime Minister?

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The title of Britain's worst Prime Minister must have a number of contenders, but for the sake of contemporary relevance, Theresa May ha...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Brexit and UK government strategy: Imperialistic Pretensions

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A good way to assess a country's true psychology is to look at how it treats other nations. The UK's relations with Europe and the...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Brexit: The Ultimate Blunder? How this is Theresa May's "Poll Tax"

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The excellent book "The Blunders Of Our Governments" goes into great depth at how governments get things wrong, often with catastr...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Brexit: the result of accumulated incompetence? Parallels with "Atlas Shrugged"

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Following the government's strategy and "progress" with the Brexit negotiations, I was reminded of  the plot to Ayn Rand's...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Brexit: The "Disaster Capitalism" Theory

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People inclined towards conspiracy theories seem to have more and more evidence each week that the Brexit negotiations appear to heading to ...