Best wanktank pitch ever
Here’s someone from Policy Exchange arguing that what the prime minister needs is an internal thinktank made up of partisan Tory special advisers, not civil servants like the people in the No.10 Policy...
View ArticleThe Radicalisation of David Goodhart
I’ve been meaning to get to this. Now, he’s bound to be out telling us to give up this or that to fight the terrorists, so here goes. OK, who’s this? The fault lies with our leaders, not with the...
View ArticleEven more twisted obsession.
OK, so I’m weirdly obsessed with “Create Streets”. Here’s some more. Will Fulford is a co-founder of The Urban Market Company, a joint venture focusing on mixed use developments of niche independent...
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Minor supplementary point
I saw someone like “Guy Wankey” from Policy Exchange on the telly today about solar power. He was very keen to say that it doesn’t make up very much of the grid today. This is apparently a reason not...
View ArticleYour chance to meet Create Streets.
So, it’s well known that I’m an obsessive about Create Streets, the flaky Tory wanktank that wants a whole succession of gimmes for developers who are in no sense their mates, except when they are....
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Here is a chart illustrating some data. Watch me say the exact opposite
The Adam Smith Institute is trying to make itself right about rail privatisation with this chart: Because it goes up and to the right! And if you forget the whole 14 year bit from 1981 to 1995 where it...
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no access
So I was recommended this blog post. Don’t bother – this is better. It’s a pity there’s no video, at least that I’ve found, because of course the banner is part of an integrated performance from the...
View ArticleWorld class wanktanking
Nick Hillman of the Higher Education Policy Institute has recently been yukking it up in the papers in favour of Oxbridge getting to put its prices up more (I shorten). That Hillman is a former Tory...
View ArticleMore questions on the Biryani Project.
Randy McDonald, and probably others, seem to have found the Afzal Amin piece baffling, so I thought I’d draft a brief explainer as follows. Afzal Amin, potential Tory MP and ex-army officer, tried to...
View Article10 insights on the Biryani Project
So, to summarise this post a bit, here are some insights: 1) The Curzon Foundation website has been up since February 2010. The various Curzon companies have existed for the same period of time, one...
View ArticleThe new Companies House website is unstoppable!
The beta version of Companies House’s website looks like a godsend for Webcheck addicts. Here’s their file on Matthew “BadSpellers Alliance” Elliott, who has apparently been in favour of social...
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