One looks at the current plans for renovating Parliament, and understands why it will cost billions. White sepulchres will be built, clean sterile lines smothering the gothic facades. Classrooms filled with strange furniture will be fronted with the usual modernist travesties of glass and steel. Apparently this is all necessary to fix the crumbling stones. …
The Bitcoin-Backed Bond: A Civilised Revolution in Public Finance There comes a moment in every nation’s history when doing more of the same ceases to be prudent and becomes, instead, deranged. Britain, with her £2.7 trillion in public debt, has reached that moment.For decades we have operated on the cheerful superstition that debt need never …
I find my place by the hearth each week, Where fire’s not fierce, but slow and deep.Not the roaring blaze of battle tales,But embered warmth for thinking sails. The beams above are cracked and low,The laughter pitched in pub light glow,And tankards rise to new rebels,To toast old jokes or daring fools. They trickle in with …