The Yes Scotland campaign website has a page, “Undecided – tell us why?”, where you can fill in a form with your reasons for not knowing which way you might vote at next year’s independence referendum. A week or so ago I sent them this message: Our financial system is designed in such a way…
Why don’t we have a Dylan Ratigan anywhere in our mainstream media? What a breath of fresh air. Watch this and be inspired.
HS2 (high speed railway) is going to cost at least £55,000 million to carry an estimated 5.4 million passengers per year. For the same money we could spend an average of £4,500 on making half of the UK’s homes (12 million of them) more energy efficient, which would be of direct benefit to around 30…
I have just read through the Scottish Government’s white paper entitled “Pensions in an independent Scotland – September 2013”. If you’re too busy to read it for yourself I can summarise it’s contents as: “don’t worry, we’re going to keep everything the same as it is in the rest of the UK with the exception…
This is an interesting article from David Graeber in which he suggests that much of the “work” we do has no tangible benefit apart from making us feel that we’re part of the workforce. He maybe overstates the case a bit but who hasn’t spent time at work doing stuff that’s utterly pointless? Another good…
I made the mistake today of listening to a “video” from MoneyWeek entitled “The End of Britain”. Adverts for it had been cropping up regularly in the MoneyWeek daily email so, even though it looked suspiciously like they were trying to sell me something I sat through it and was appalled at the quality of…
Another great video from RSA Animate in which Roman Krznaric argues the case for empathy as a force to make the world a better place for all of us. I love his ideas for exhibits in the museum of empathy.
Simon Heffer has caused a bit of a stooshie with this stunningly mendacious article in the English version Daily Mail, which has given Yes Scotland the opportunity to publicise some corrections. I’m a long way from being a Yes Scotland supporter but facts are facts and I thought my friends from south of the border…
Here’s a video that introduces the idea of a Universal Basic Income. Many of you will be deeply suspicious of the concept. I certainly was when I first thought about it while researching my book. I was looking for solutions to the problem of how to recycle money through the productive economy, which is an…
Here’s a video that gives a simple explanation of how money might work in an independent Scotland. Sadly the makers of the video fail to acknowledge the elephant in the room, a creature that’s going to make a mess of the carpet regardless of which of the three options we choose. All three choices in the video…
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