Jeremy Smith
@jeremysmith
Co-director PRIME Economics, author of "The Great Brexit Wrench" (PEF, 2019). Past: Gen Secretary of European & international local govt associations, CEO Camden Council, barrister, law centre founder, factotum at ABC tea-shop on Earl's Court Road 1966.
The partial eclipse as seen from Snape through our high tech colander...
Good to see @annpettifor.bsky.social telling it how it is, on Project Syndicate - "The Monetary Roots of Political Extremism" www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/gene...
A sister of Foucault's Pendulum responds from her home in the Pantheon, Paris...
Andrew, you may enjoy this dodgiest of ads from Heathrow in 2014. Falesly claimed • It will bring economic benefits of £100bn • bring 120,000 new jobs • Every month the problem goes unresolved costing the British economy £1.25bn through lost trade. Our riposte: primeeconomics.org/articles/out...
Sizewell was delightful today, with a gentle breeze offering its balm. (Delightful that is, if you look in the right direction).
My photo of Chinese primary school children, c.1999 (? Suzhou), exhorted to "Work Hard Learn Widely Be Capable". Seems to have worked reasonably for China. Just came across this & other forgotten prints from my 1st visit to China, Local Govt International Bureau cllr delegation, invited by CPAFFC*
My first substack article attempt! Here for fun is the screenshot of the Home Office's Freudian slip - Fact-cheet indeed on the government's dangerous new public order laws. (Keir, you really should not be doing this stuff, or letting your Home Secretaries do it)
Stressed Daddy Blackbird is feeding fat Baby Blackbird, while Mr Robin looks on
Wouldja believe it. My Quordle numbers this evening really are .. (read as I was trained from bottom right, anticlockwise)... 8 6 4 7 The words have their own secret message, too.
The Mystery Cat, in the Mandelson affair. Neither McSweeney nor McStarmer are (ever) there... www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/macavi...
Remember, always remember... (Photo from today's Marina Hyde Guardian article - "The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced – convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump")
The Netanyahu Government should be now be proscribed by the Home Secretary as a terrorist organisation. The definition of 'terrorism' in the Terrorism Act of 2000 covers their current 'actions' in Iran and Lebanon
Amid these crazy days, it's time for a full moon photo, taken by me a couple of days ago in Suffolk.
Article 73 of the UN Charter would seem to be a good basis for such a protectorate! "to ensure...their political, economic, social, & educational advancement, their just treatment, & their protection against abuses.. to assist them in the progressive development of their free political institutions"
Just found my photo - which I like - from a couple of years ago. From path to Iken, close to Snape Maltings. Not sure what bird this is - any advice?
"To kickstart the economy... use the power of Labour’s majority to rewire & restructure powerful institutions." @annpettifor.bsky.social criticizes OBR, Treasury, BoE policies as working against interests of the British people. In today's paper @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While #Trump is in news (!), here's my post of earlier this week: "Trump – God’s chosen instrument? (For our destruction, that is)". Drawing on Genesis Ch 1, I interpret God's reasoning, using Trump as fast track to get rid of humans wrecking His planet [satire alert] refractions.org/post/7927826...
I always look to Sellar and Yeatman for historical accuracy on this period (and indeed on many periods of proud English history). I was however a little surprised to see their learned opus claimed as "an early post-modernist text" in Wikipedia.
Well.. the full moon still rose in August over Sizewell's Sea [my pic]...but the FT today asks "Is the UK’s giant new nuclear power station ‘unbuildable’? Meant to withstand being hit by an aircraft, industry veterans warn of Sizewell C’s ‘terrifying’ complexity" www.ft.com/content/ee89...
My latest [a wee bit sardonic] post: "Trump – God’s chosen instrument? (For our destruction, that is)". We were told, in Genesis Chapter 1 to "replenish" the Earth, not destroy & degrade it. God has had enough - sees Trump as a quick means to rid Earth of humankind. refractions.org/post/7927826...
Can anyone help me identify this rather good-looking moth, or is it butterfly? Found on bedroom wall a few nights ago, around midnight..
On Trump, Brexit & EU... Me writing in 2019: "It comes as no surprise that the Trump administration seeks to take advantage of our growing political disunity... to pursue its strategic agenda of damaging & breaking the European Union, which it sees... progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Still so: "The first object of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will; & the next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for no tyrant could afford to leave a subject’s freedom in the hands of 12 of his countrymen” Sir Patrick Devlin, Trial by Jury 1956