There’s a lot of noise on the left about Freeport/Charter Cities. What are they and how dangerous to democracy and workers’ rights are they? Here are my notes.
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Will we repeat the 2008 collapse?
Will the 2022 Cost of Living crisis led to mortgage defaults and bank failures? Once more some notes,
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Wages, rents and profit
Much of the campaigning in favour of the current wave of strikes poses them as defensive, and quotes the excess in profits being made. I wonder what the stats say, the National Income consists of wages, rents and profits. Here are my notes …
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On Sunak’s Macroeconomics
While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.
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Unemployment and Income in Europe
I was looking at some economics of the EU and decided to plot income and unemployment, I was hoping to see how much geography made a difference. Here are my notes …
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1st Steps
I have been thinking about Brexit again over the last few days, I issued my personal short term manifesto, and read the British Chamber of Commerce’s puff in the FT. I comment on the one benefit identified so far, Crown logos on pint glasses. Otherwise, here are some notes,
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The UK Economy
What’s the economy look like today, or last march?
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Copyright law and streaming
Kevin Brennan MP, introduced a private member’s bill earlier this year to establish the right to ‘equitable’ remuneration for musicians and composers for use of their material on streaming platforms. It would seem that this is an attempt to implement a series of recommendations from the DCMS Select Committee. (I think the bill will fail…
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UK employee protection and the EU/ILO
The Guardian published a piece talking about how the gravity of the EU aquis and its coming regulation on employment rights in the gig economy will impact UK employers. Maybe/maybe not! The article also reminds us of Johnson’s election promises,
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The EU’s data strategy
Just come off an IAPP webinar called, “The EU’s Strategy for Data: What the DSA, DMA, DGA mean for privacy”. These stand for Digital Services/Market/Governance Acts. I wonder if this the EU’s equivalence of the UK’s Data: A new direction. Much of the seminar, or the bit I stayed for was does this conflict with…
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SCRUM
Shit or not! My notes.
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Visualising London data
I wanted to say something simple about the cost of desk space in London and made it complicated. I made a map showing relative costs, this is how.
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Unified Patent Court
This has been a long time coming or not coming; but what does Brexit do to it. This piece holds my notes, and concludes by asking if the political opposition is based on “sovereignty as a business”? …
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Adequacy
The Commission have issued an adequacy agreement to permit cross border data flows between the EU and the UK. Here are some notes, for an article that I’ll develop/post elsewhere. …
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Steel
The Tories are about to fuck up the steel industry … again. No they didn’t. Here are my notes and links.
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