Jos Gallacher 🕊️
@jos
Scot, European citizen, economic policy aficionado, green tinged democratic socialist, social democrat, book lover, coffee addict and pedant. In that order.
This morning I’ve come to hear a young man play guitar. The audience has the same grey haired demographic as other shows. Where are the young people?
Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra at the Usher Hall at the Edinburgh international festival #eif
One of those things that #eif Edinburgh does really well. A conversation with brainy people.
First day of the Edinburgh International Festival. Enjoyed A Trial - After An Enemy of the People this afternoon. Now starting on the fringe with Fourth on the Fringe.
How to end the cycle of mistrust between the Treasury and everybody else www.ft.com/content/4987...
The Kings Theatre reopened yesterday. I’ve already got tickets to see The Steamie.
This FT editorial is lazy. The cliches and second hand wisdom do not make for a coherent argument. People who write in cliches probably think in cliches. By the way, the City of London is not a sector.
On this day ten years ago, along with comrades from the Brussels Labour Party, I went door to door getting out the vote in Islington. The next day I held a wake with my book group in my Brussels garden.
The causality runs the other way. Austerity led to a lower increases in GDP.
And, in their recent report the Tribune Group of MPs echoed the thought:
The idea has caught on. The recent report from the Labour Growth Group of MPs said this:
Do you remember when Ed Miliband talked about “predators and producers”? From today’s FT:
www.bbc.com/news/article... The generals say the money is not enough but they need to explain what happened to all the money they’ve had up to now. josgallacher.substack.com/p/warfare-no...