Mike Norman Economics

Labour were going to sort out the finance sector, which is why it fought so hard to prevent them gaining power.It is just like Yes Minister, the great British comedy, where unless a minister has a lot of experience in finance, or the military, etc, and they usually don't, they will have to rely on very experienced civil servants instead, who will tell them what to do and what to say.But the civil servants, the regulatory authorities, and the bankers are all part of the same club - the Gentry...

Craig Murray says his both China and Russia are authoritarian empires, and like all empires, they can be very oppressive. Indigenous Eurasian Islamic Populations

No wonder China is zooming ahead. Vulture capitalism is gutting out rural America. [embedded content]

Oh well, my new attitude about trying to make peace with the right didn't last long.On twitter I put out research showing how most young people tend to be left leaning, but some people on the right told me that they will see sense and go conservative as they get older, as people always do, they said.So I put out articles saying that this isn't the case, but they refused to believe it (which I can understand, because nobody changes their views very easily) and they came viscously back at me....

An excellent video on the split between left and right and how it can be healed.Buddhist academics here seem to be very advanced in acknowledging how our own demons get projected onto others. I thought the Buddhists would be the most liberal, but here they bridge both left and right to find wholeness.The liberals think they are the nice people, but they are becoming very angry indeed. They hate oppression, but could they become the oppressors - liberal authoritarianism?The liberals here who...

How Identity Politics can go off the rails, although I am unable to read the whole article because it's behind a paywall. The term ‘quantum supremacy’ to refer to the moment where quantum computers outperform classical machines, is a racist and colonialist term, scientists have argued, sparking a heated row in academia. In the latest edition of the journal Nature, a group of 16 scientists, including academics from Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol Universities, said the term...

Peace is coming folks, they will charm the pants of Putin and world leaders. They mignt even agree to do something about climate change.Meet the new Government of #Finland. From left to right: Minister of Education Li Andersson (32), Minister of Finance Katri Kulmuni (32), Prime Minister Sanna Marin (34) and Minister of Internal Affairs Maria Ohisalo (34).

Does that mean the Tories are finished?  The future is left. Blue Labour and the Tories are destined to become a minority. We think the trend in previous generations has been from left to right as the electorate ages. Even if that is true, is there really going to be such a dramatic shift in political leaning as to redress such a huge imbalance between Tory and Labour support within this generation? Add into the mix the views of the next age group up: In the 24–49 age bracket,...

Just a few weeks ago it was all doom and gloom.

It's a quite strange video, but I followed it okay at the beginning where Jon Bailes quotes from his book. In the rest he elaborates on his theories using the game, Life is Strange, but I had to slow it down to 0.75 to be able to follow it.What interested me is how Jon says we feel that we must maximise everything we do in our lives. Not only at work do we feel we need to achieve as much as we can, but also in our home life too: quality time with the kids; engaging in hobbies or sports;...