Tag: 2020

  • Pandemic and the Limits of Entrepreneurial Government

    Once again the government has used a high-profile announcement of an apparent technological breakthrough (the “game-changer” this time is the promise of ninety-minute diagnostic tests) to try to distract from their general failure to effectively address the pandemic (and, in this particular case, to grab front pages from the embarrassing story of a former minister […]

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  • BOOK REVIEW: ESCAPOLOGY BY REN WAROM

    BOOK REVIEW: ESCAPOLOGY BY REN WAROM

    Escapology by Ren Warom (Titan Books, 2016) If I reveal that the characters in Escapology, Ren Warom’s first novel, have names such as Amiga, Shock, Twist and Deuce then some of you will immediately deduce a great deal more about the book. You’ll intuit that this is an everyday story of hacker folk. You may […]

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  • IT IS STILL BOLLOCKS TO BREXIT – LEFT OR RIGHT

    The way in which Corbyn and his mates have been using the issue of Brexit as a weapon in their desperate attempts to retain control of the Labour Party is, I think, revealing. The most common criticism of the Labour Party they inherited was that it wasn’t ideologically pure enough. That it was too concerned […]

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