General guidance
This site seeks to provide incisive and original analysis of public policy. I forecast current trends in UK and global economies and examine major themes like net zero, welfare and work, running the public sector, and the digital revolution. Anyone with good ideas or sensible criticisms is welcome.
I highlight big issues that the BBC and traditional media ignore. I have exposed the planned £240 bn losses by the Bank of England, the £20 bn plus productivity back hole in the UK budget, the disastrous impact of extreme net zero policies on UK industry, growth and tax revenue, and the way mass migration creates strains on housing, public services and the national budget.
This is not a political party site. It is not a site to pursue individual UK politicians or influencers for their alleged misdeeds. It is not a site for over the top partisan rhetoric for any political party
I do not usually publish anything which seeks to compare today’s elected governments with Hitler, the Nazis or fascism.Generalised abuse of parties and institutions is discouraged. I allow contributors to advance factually incorrect or bizarre or self serving arguments for their causes and parties , but pall of letting them repeat these on too many occasions. I am not their fact checker and often disagree with the points submitted. I do not have the time to correct or counter argue in most cases.
The two I never publish
As they break my rules, why not find a site that is more to their liking. They are wasting more of their own time than mine.
January 12, 2025
Rachel Reeves will launch a war on waste to stabilise public finances amid growing disquiet from her MPs over her handling of the economy. In an attempt to get back on the front foot after a week of turmoil in financial markets, the Chancellor will lead a major new drive to tackle “waste and inefficiency” across the public sector which will leave “no stone unturned”. No need to look under stones the vast waste is in plane view everywhere you care to look.
Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Telegraph today.
So ditch net zero, drill, frack and mine, deregulate, fire the half the state sector that does net harm or nothing positive, cut immigration and all the immigration incentives, cut and simplify taxes, encourage more use of private schools and private medicine, encourage the rich and hard working to stay and invest rather than to leave, unblock the roads… in short 180 degree turns on nearly on all of this governments insane policies.
January 12, 2025
Yes you highlight problems like someone putting up targets in the butts, but you rarely offer solutions. Some glaring problems or glaring elephants you respond to by never entering the room.
When we offer solutions to problems, to some of the more sensitive problems, you suffer a tendency to throw your toys out of the pram. You blame us who do offer solutions, because they offend your sensibilities. Put simply, you prefer to sweep offending solutions under the carpet.
Equally you run from offending politicians who earn it via their idiocy and zealotry because they are members of the same club. They earn our contempt.
My advice is that you start offering solutions, which we may well argue about in a constructive way. We are all too aware that UK politics are largely a fuckfest of incompetence and inaction. We want a vision beyond this. It will not be achieved by shooting at the messengers.
Reply I offer solutions all the time. I have set out plans to grow the economy, go for cheaper energy, control migration, reform monetary policy etc. I publish other people’s solutions if they accept my rules for publication.