From the monthly archives:

August 2005

On Jobs

18 August 2005

It’s a hallmark of every political campaign, no matter what the party, no matter what the time, that the next government is Going To Create Jobs. It’s been a hallmark of campaigns ever since the Company Vote was removed in time for the 1967 election (it was still around in 1962, Universal Suffrage notwithstanding; [...]

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On Woodwork and Worms

11 August 2005

To every thing, says the writer of Ecclesiastes, there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. He goes on to talk about being born and dying, planting and plucking up, killing and healing, breaking down and building up. What he doesn’t talk about, presumably because the writer of Ecclesiastes [...]

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