Mike Norman Economics

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;...

I used to think XP was quite good. Us older ones sometimes have trouble getting to grips with the newer technology. Official Kremlin photos showed Putin sitting by a desktop at Moscow residence.  The screen's blue taskbar suggested that Putin is still using the outdated XP.  Microsoft no longer provides support and warns that XP may be more vulnerable Daily MailVladimir Putin 'still uses obsolete Windows XP' despite Microsoft no longer releasing updates for it since 2014

The self-serving con of neoliberalism is that it has eroded the human values the market was supposed to emancipate I remember having to go to company meeting once with about twenty other people to be indoctrinated with the company's ethics and future plans.At one point we were all asked if we could think of any ideas where our company could branch out and make more money, after all, our jobs depended on it, we were told, and the competition was hot, they said, so we needed to be...

Over the last few years British life expectancy has been falling. The Tories first blamed the weather, then the flu, but once Brexit got announced people became obsessed with it and so the Tories were able to bury the story.  Britain has the harshest austerity program in Europe and people are dying because of it. More babies are dying and the very old may be left without help in their homes. The most devastated areas are the working class ones which voted Brexit.  How did the Tories get...

Quite an interesting, but short, article I thought. I haven't got a patriotic bone in my body. I think all nations are equal, but some governments can be bad. Fear of immigrants and foreigners is associated with support for Brexit, according to a pair of studies conducted by an international team of researchers. These [personality traits] were right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation – the idea that one’s group needs to fight for superiority in the world. The third...