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UK — Electoral Naiveté
Posted by on Mar 14, 2020
This week on Facebook: UK electoral issues¹. Every election does — to my mind —point to the fundamental differences between how they are viewed by politicians, the electorate, and the social media. Each may have what they consider to be pragmatic views but they only agree on their own self interest and not on that of the State. This includes the social media (news on the web) which, for the most part, are articles written for publication and intended to appeal to a certain readership. While we all are guilty of doing that, some of us may claim to have learned our lesson.
USA & China
Posted by on Jan 11, 2020
This week onFacebook: Heralds a new era in the balance of power, it now being a global issue rather than a European one. With the end of WWII the United States and Russia wielded their economic hegemony in the West. This western world largely ignored the territorial advances of China. The Russian failure at European economic hegemony has now been replaced in the last forty-years by a resurgent China and the economic growth of oriental states. The balance of power that the USA and China¹·² now share is likely to lead to a conflict for economic and military dominance on an unprecedented global scale. Read more of this post
Elections: Time for change?
Posted by on Jun 17, 2017
This week on Facebook: Having returned a blank voting form in the recent general election, perhaps the result provided me with a brief moment of schadenfreude in that it brought about party political, and most importantly, electoral anarchy. It also confounded the pundits who are now trying to rationalise the result and the electoral reformists who are trying to capitalise on it. What seems to be lacking in articles on electoral reform is the notion of making members of parliament (MPs) responsible to the whole of their electorate and giving a voice to the increasing rise in the electorate who spoil their voting slip or who withhold their votes completely. Read more of this post
2013 in review
Posted by on Dec 31, 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,100 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 35 trips to carry that many people.
Grasshopper – Wally & Volstead
Posted by on Feb 12, 2013
Grasshopper
I said that I would post information on ‘economics’, which is something that is easier said than done. Apart from the range of the subject area and the complicated interconnections, there is the range of opinion regarding the subject areas and their interconnection. Most of us quite happily lead lives where such issues are either of no concern to us, or it is assumed that those professionals dealing with such things know what they are doing. However, society itself and the complexity of economic management, makes us all players. While this has always been true, this complexity has increases, probably exponentially, since societies met and started trading with each other. I would suggest that following the industrial revolution, the complexity of economic theory began to rise significantly, which may – or may not – have improved any understanding of it. Read more of this post
