Gerard Lyons
Dubai rescue scramble shows we need to consider a citizenship tax
Passport taxation makes you a helot of the State by accident of borth.
It will also increase taxes upon everyone. For it will be more difficult to escape high taxation, this shifts the Laffer Peak to the right, therefore taxes will rise to that level.
Cooper scoffs at this. “The idea that Reform or the Conservatives would want to make decisions just based on what the US do or say – or what any other country does or says – doesn’t feel like sensible foreign policy. It’s not based on values. It’s based on dogma. Look, our partnerships are really important, our alliances, the global multilateral cooperation is really important. But also important, as part of that, is that we’re following the UK principles and interests.”
Whatever else, the US is the global hegemon. Thus our foreign policy doesn;thave to be the same as – obviously – but clearly it’s going to be based upon what the global hegemon does or says.
“The one thing that I think that even now is underestimated by all actors in industry … is how disruptive these technologies are,” Karp said. “If you are going to disrupt the economic and therefore political power significantly of one party’s base – highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat, and military and working-class people who do not feel supported – and you believe that that’s going to work out politically, you’re in an insane asylum.”
He added: “Like … this technology disrupts humanities-trained – largely Democratic – voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society.”
The Slaughter of the Power Skirts. And why wouldn’t society want that to happen?
Global water bankruptcy
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Spud’s actually found a real problem. Huzzah.
Of course Spud will never stumble over, let alone agree to, the known solution. Price water properly and farmers will stop using it to grow low value crops where the price is high. Reducing irrigation usage solves the entire problem.
But that would be neoliberal, using prices and markets to solve a problem, no?
The Companies House website was wholly open. Get into your own account with authorisation code and so on. Then, with a bit of wibbling about (I understand it was “press back 4 times”) you can get into any- and every- ones’.
Change the address of Shell, close down BP, etc etc…..
Brought to you by the people about to enforce Digital ID. And who gave you the Post Office thing about counting incomplete transactions as valid.
At first footballs were used, but thanks to the obvious pleasure the elephants took in popping them, a standard polo ball was substituted.
Only five MPs voted against passing the Climate Change Act in 2008. Before the last election, over Tory 130 MPs belonged to the Conservative Environment Network, or over half of all Conservative backbenchers. The star of the Centre for Policy Studies’ 2022 Margaret Thatcher Conference on Growth was Octopus Energy Group CEO Greg Jackson, who told nodding heads in the audience that “it’s absolutely unarguably cheaper to make electricity from renewables than from fossil fuels”.
That wasn’t true then and it isn’t true now, but conformity to the green ideology was enforced with an iron fist. Incredibly, Liz Truss gave the job of “reviewing” her climate policy to Chris Skidmore, the greenest of the green Tories, who duly delivered what the blob wanted: “Mission Zero”. With the honourable exception of the late Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the Tory intellectual apparatus in SW1 has kept a pretty low profile on the biggest issue of the day.
‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics
Apparently, using a military ruins it.
In addition, our energy system has become fragile. We were at one time energy independent, and we did not learn the lesson and the benefit of that. We are now heavily dependent upon imported gas, and gas is used not only for heating, but also for electricity generation.
But if you suggested increasing domestic supplies of gas – N Sea or fracking – you would also be wrong, right?
Long-term contributor to this blog, Nigel Hargreaves, who lives in South Dorset, would like to know whether anyone in that area is interested in joining a local Funding the Future group.
He has a free venue available for a meeting, which can accommodate 30 or so.
I assume that isn’t BiSD ‘avin’ a giraffe?
Lady Hodge, Dame Margaret, Baroness Hodge, is now, apparently, a neoliberal.
Now, circumstances have changed. Hodge, now a member of the House of Lords, seems to talk more about Zionist sentiment than anything else these days, despite which fact she is in line to become head of Ofcom, which oversees TV, radio, video-on-demand network broadcasting, broadband, mobile and postal services in the UK. Few people seem less suited to head such an organisation than Hodge, in my opinion, given the very apparent biases that she has revealed in her work as an MP, where she unjustly vilified Jeremy Corbyn, attacked the left consistently, and has acted in a pro-Zionist fashion, which will inevitably alienate some.
So:
Hodge was born on 8 September 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Jewish refugee parents[5][6] Hans Oppenheimer, and his wife Lisbeth (née Hollitscher).[5] Hans Oppenheimer left Stuttgart in Germany during the 1930s to join his uncle’s metals business based in Cairo and Alexandria, where he met fellow émigrée, Austrian-born Lisbeth Hollitscher. Married in 1936, Hans and Lisbeth had five children.
At the outset of World War II, the couple and their eldest daughter were rendered stateless, effectively stranded in the Kingdom of Egypt for the duration of the War. They decided to leave Egypt in 1948, concerned that antisemitism had increased in the Middle East during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The family moved to Orpington, Kent (present-day Greater London),
Can’t imagine, at all, why someone of that background might think Israel is a pretty good idea.
BTW, yes, I have met her, thinkk she’s vile, have often enough said she’s been vilely hypocritical to my mind on taxation issues and so on.
But no, we cannot allow Spud to get away with that one now, can we?
Brittan is the man who appeared in front of Hodge in Parliament, representing Google. Not only does his past record on tax exclude him from consideration, in my opinion, but we also have to ask how it is that the stars have so aligned that, a decade or so on, these two appear to be destined to head major broadcasting organisations in the UK.
And who runs the BBC is now supposed to be subject to Spud’s ideas on tax?
I blew the whistle on Covid jabs five years ago. Now, I’m fighting for my medical licence
When my father died suddenly in 2021, I raised legitimate safety concerns about mRNA vaccines. The establishment backlash was immediate
Aseem Malhotra
Presumably the against sugar folk, the against salt folk, the against obesity folk, the against UPF folk, have all thrown him out so he’s this gig instead.
The redress schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have “serious structural failings”, a parliamentary committee has found.
Still not jailed the entire board of directors yet so of course there are significacnt failings.
By far the cheapest component of our energy supply is the electricity produced by renewables, principally wind and solar. It’s the same story worldwide. But the price of electricity does not reflect the mix of sources. It is set at almost all times by its most expensive component. And what might that be? Oh yes, fossil gas. Even before the current war, gas prices were astronomical, and had been rising in leaps and bounds. This, overwhelmingly, is the reason for our high energy bills.
Nowt to do with CfDs, grid upgrade costs, intermittency, back up requirements, the required subsidies. Oh no.
The only interesting thing is whether Geroge actually believes this shit himself, or not.
Even so, it doesn’t offer this gas to UK customers at special rates. The companies sell it, as everyone else does, on the international market, at the international price. Extracting every last cubic metre from the North Sea would not shift the price by one penny.
Supply goes up, price changes. Sigh.
Perhaps George really does believe this shit?
Renewables are highly competitive and, for this reason, low-profit. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and high profit.
He certainly seems stupid enough to believe it, yes.
When Middle Eastern wars sparked an oil crisis in the 1970s, tripling energy prices and throwing economies into chaos, some countries looked beyond short-term solutions. The French made nuclear the pillar of their power system. Scandinavians insulated buildings and funnelled waste heat into homes. The Dutch built bike lanes where others wanted motorways. The Danes developed wind turbines.
Which is why, of course, if you want to change the enrgy mix it is prices you should change…..
The weaponisation of energy when Russia invaded Ukraine has given way to “weaponising everything” since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Germany’s former economy minister has said.
Robert Habeck, the Green politician responsible for keeping the lights on during the last energy crisis, said the belief gas “would never be a political weapon” led successive German governments blindly into Putin’s trap by building the Nord Stream pipelines and selling strategic reserves to Gazprom, which Russia emptied before the invasion.
I guess Germans can be naive, yes. If it’s not written down, in hte regulations, then it’s not going to happen?
Libel law has too often been used to prevent the truth from being told, and that undermines our democracy.
But shouldn’t we be adding the USA and Israel? They are now the source of more evil than any other nations on earth. Objectively, given the harm they have caused, that has to be true.
And shouldn’t we be calling out the real problem? That is toxic zionism. That is the issue driving this evil. I do not see how this can be denied now. It ia factual observation. And there is nothing antisemitic about saying so. It might, in fact, be antisemitic not to point it out and discuss the issue.
The reason the left so hate, absolutely are driven to distraction by it, Israel is because the place had voluntary socialism. Really, the kibbutz movement was the closest to an economy built upon voluntary socialism anyone ever tried.
And over the decades Israelis looked at that and thought, yeah, well, nice idea for some niche section of the population but we’ll go with the capitalism. Ta, thanks and all that, but no.
Which is something the left simply cannot forgive, is it?
Marseille is a haven for artists and progressives. How could it be on the cusp of far-right rule?
Mary Fitzgerald
The more artists and progressives you’ve got around the further far right your views are driven…..
