That’s politics for you: Ahead of an election political parties and politicians make outlandish promises often, I suspect, with very little thought whether their plans ultimately can be implemented or not. Examples are the recent election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York and his pledge of city run grocery stores and free buses […]
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The Cost of Combining Politics and Business
Politics and business, for a number of reasons, do not make good bedfellows! Take Elon Musk for example: While he and his minions are running havoc cutting (or more likely ‘slashing’) costs within the US government, sales of his Tesla cars have hit the rocks. In Switzerland in January 26.6% fewer Teslas were registered than […]
The Rise of Global Powers: Challenges for Europe
The world increasingly is revolving around three major powers: the United States, Russia and China. And with all three blocs being led by autocratic personalities and governments, a degree of confrontation is pre-programmed: America seeks to take control of the Panama Canal, would like to accept Canada as the 51st state and wants to buy […]
Divided We Stand: Navigating Political Polarisation
As elections in Britain and the United States are upon us (and all of a sudden also in France), it is time to look at the political landscape and how it has evolved. Once upon a time in the United Kingdom there used to be the Conservatives and the Labour Party – and to a […]
MP’s Earnings
In the middle of July we learned through the media what our MPs were earning outside their parliamentary roles: They earn on average £233 an hour, which is 17 times the national average wage and 22 times higher than the minimum hourly wage. The highest paid sitting MP was Liz Truss, remember, she’s the Prime […]
The COP26 President’s travels
Unless you follow British politics or are involved in the climate change movement you probably won’t have heard of Alok Sharma, Britain’s climate minister. And in his official role as President for COP 26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, he has made a major contribution – for the worse – to climate change […]
The grumpy older man 