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Does Dark Matter Really Exist?
Beautiful Spiral Galaxy as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers and cosmologists tod...
Easier Carbon Accounting ?
Preoccupation with Covid-19, exam results and the impending doom that is called Brexit can easi...
Learn to love the deficit!
It is widely believed that the substantial deficit incurred to keep the economy running must ev...
The Greenest Economic Revival
Summary: We must create large numbers of jobs quickly if we are to recover rapidly from the pan...
Government Decision-Making: Often Badly Flawed.
Summary: it is difficult to exaggerate the malign influence that Dominic Cummings has had on th...
Testing: the Key to Escaping Lockdown.
Summary: We need to make intelligent decisions about what is the right strategy when we progres...
Escape from Lockdown.
Summary: The British government seem surprisingly reluctant even to talk about how we might man...
Massive Underreporting of Covid-19 Deaths
Summary: The daily Covid-19 deaths statistics only referred to deaths in hospital. Deaths in ca...
Lockdown Collapse?
Summary: The much delayed Lockdown in the UK has been managed well by the majority of our popul...
Exit from Lockdown: Take Back Control.
Summary: The draconian British lockdown rules may have worked but several are arbitrary and unn...
Electric Vehicles: Too Much Hype?
Summary: The importance of achieving zero carbon is accepted to be critical. One area whe...
Small Really Is Beautiful.
Restricting the use of large heavy internal combustion vehicles on our roads can have a dramati...
Outsidethebubble lives!
Summary: Outsidethebubble.net has been silent for about 18 months. This was because there was s...
A Truly Dreadful Night for Labour.
Summary: Now that most of the election results are in, the spin masters are working flat out to...
Theresa May and Her Poisonous Immigration Policies.
Summary: Theresa May in this photograph, taken yesterday, has the expression of a mediaeval sai...
Labour Can Substantially Restrict Freedom of Movement
Summary: Jeremy Corbyn has clearly stated on a number of occasions that he agrees with Leave ca...
Endemic Corruption in the UK?
Summary: South Africa has been plagued by corruption for about the same time that the UK has be...
The NHS and a Web of Deceit.
Summary: the NHS and our social care services are under extraordinary pressure. The government ...
Don’t Conflate Brexit with Party Politics.
Summary: Brexit is not a party political issue. The increasing pressures on Labour to come out ...
Labour Must Rethink Its Brexit Strategy.
Summary: Labour’s policy on Brexit is far too poorly defined. We don’t need to come...
A Tsunami is Coming This Way!
Summary: With unemployment in the UK so low it is easy to ignore some radical changes that are ...
You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.
Summary: The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerit...
The View from Catatonia*: Don’t Talk about the War!
Summary: The problems within the Tory party are growing. The key battle in parliament now is th...
The Wheels Are Coming off!
Summary: The Tory party seem to be in advanced state of chaos. Theresa May can barely hold the ...
Labour Must Keep Calm and Leave the Tories To Self-Destruct.
Summary: There is a big potential danger in the levels of confidence exuded by the Labour Party...
May-hem In the Housing Market.
Summary: Theresa May has given a Leader’s speech that has left her more fragile and at risk tha...
Mt Theresa Close to Eruption.
Summary: A dreadful eruption is close! Mt Teresa has become very unstable yet many of the inhab...
Songs from the Viper’s Nest.
Summary: The Tory party are in total disarray about Brexit. The Cabinet will try to cobble toge...
Boris and His Bucket Bomb.
Summary: Boris has again lumbered into view to complicate further the Tory party’s view of what...
Why Allowing the Henry VIII Provisions to Pass Would Be a Disaster.
Summary: The Great Repeal Bill relies extensively on the use of secondary legislation to bypass...
Another Folly for Fallon!
Summary: The movie “Dunkirk” showed how easy it is for small old-fashioned propeller aircraft w...
Might Northern Ireland Trigger Another British General Election?
Summary: The politics of Northern Ireland are complicated and made more so by Brexit negotiatio...
Summer Is Over: Back to the Salt Mine.
Summary: Summer is over with little prospect of warm weather in September. The schools are back...
A Spot of Serious Collateral Damage?
Summary: The war of words between the US and North Korea could easily spill over into military ...
Can Jeremy Corbyn Walk Upon the Water?
Summary: There is a big potential danger in the levels of confidence exuded by the Labour Party...
Fallon’s Folly
Operations room in HMS Queen Elizabeth. Summary: The computer hardware, software and infrastruc...
Dealing with the Brexit Fraud.
It doesn’t matter how Brexiteers spin things. We were lied to in order to achieve a very ...
Solving The Housing Crisis: A Fairer Deal For All
Summary: Successive governments have been grossly negligent in their approach to providing adeq...
Democratic Lies.
Summary: We are told repeatedly that the referendum result represents the “Democratic Will of t...
Where Next for Labour?
Summary: The Labour promise to end austerity and to invest in the UK has breached the neolibera...
Under the Shade of the Magic Money Tree.
Summary: The Tories criticism of the Labour manifesto as depending on a “Magic Money Tree” show...
Paying for Social Care Or Anything Else. Simply the wrong question!
Summary: We must stop conflating expenditure in one fiscal area with some notional correspondin...
Time for Labour to Park Its Tanks on Theresa’s Lawn!
Summary: Brexit is going to happen and Labour are fully committed to that. The Tories claim tha...
Theresa May: Exposed As a Fraud
Summary: Theresa May wants us to believe she is the only one who can deliver a successful Brexi...
Theresa May: Weak, Unstable and Now Unsafe.
Summary: Theresa May wants to be seen as a leader, strong and stable and resolute in dealing wi...
Its Even Worse Than You Realise, Teresa!
Summary: The figures for those needing care under the Tories new policy are much more worrying ...
Raising Money from the Elderly, Not from the Rich.
Theresa May’s new manifesto will force elderly people to pay a larger part of the costs o...
Parliamentary Reports Side-lined By Snap Election.
Summary: reports of Parliamentary Committees are very important as they try to hold the governm...
We Need to Talk about Theresa.
Summary: The real Theresa May is very different from the image she would like to project. She i...
Winning Your Seat for Labour.
The game is on, and you need to win back your seat. You are probably being flooded by good advi...
Outline Radical Centre-Left Budget: Revision 1.
Summary: This is intended to be a strawman budget appropriate to a Labour government committed ...
Defence in the 21st-Century.
Summary: The UK military is very poorly equipped at present because of the MoD’s appalling proc...
Time for a new political party?
Summary: the increasing dissatisfaction with the direction of drift of the Labour Party is lead...
Fighting Brexit: Sowing Doubt amongst Brexiteers
Summary: Fighting Brexit is something that must be encouraged and carried out with enthusiasm a...
The Labour Brand Is Becoming Irredeemably Toxic. What Can We Do Now?
Summary: The Labour Party is widely agreed to be in a pretty bad state. The manoeuvrings in the...
Britain Defenceless in the 21st-Century.
Summary: The British defence programme is in an extraordinarily bad state. All current procurem...
Fair Access to the British Justice System.
Summary: The British legal system is in a state of crisis. Legal aid availability has been redu...
Rethinking the British Prison System: Reducing the Population
Summary: The UK prison system is in crisis with the highest population ever and cuts in the pri...
Extreme Right Group Work for Brexit Breakdown
Summary: The prospects for a rapid breakdown in the Brexit negotiations are worrying. Well orga...
British Higher Education System Failing the Young and the UK.
Summary: It costs much more to go to university in the UK than in any other OECD country. Stude...
Extraordinary New Cult Discovered In UK!
Summary: a strange new cult, the BeLeavers, has been discovered in the UK. Their ambition is to...
Government Driving up Non-EU Immigration Intentionally.
Summary: The cost of training nurses that is presently borne by the NHS is being replaced by st...
Brexit Plan for Labour Agreed at Last!
Summary: There is a comprehensive new proposal for the approach which should be taken for the...
Brexiteers in Fantasyland: Trade Deals Much Harder Than They Imagine.
Summary: There is a great deal of naivety about setting up trade deals amongst the Brexiteers. ...
Trident: The Third Way. Make Do and Mend!
Summary: We need to rethink what we should be doing about Trident, given the recent embarrassin...
Please Can We Have Better Leaders?
Summary: The last few days have been extraordinary in that we have had speeches by both Brit...
The Naked Empress Theresa.
Summary: The latest interview with Theresa May made it clear that she does not expect to be abl...
Brexit Fraud Unravelling
Summary: The government are being told by their ambassador to the EU what has been obvious for ...
Brexit: Opportunity for the Biggest Right-Wing Power Grab for a Generation.
Summary: If Brexit does go ahead a vast array of powers will be repatriated to the UK. Major go...
Brexit – A Guide to a Dangerous Future: book review by Colin Gordon
https://www.canburypress.com/…/Brexit-What-the-hell-happens… Please note that this book re...
Massive Negligence by Theresa May when Home Secretary.
Summary: The rules that define the permitted extent of Freedom of Movement within the European ...
Brexiting in an Earthquake Zone.
Summary: the route towards Brexit is much more complicated and fraught than most of the public ...
Trump Success Should Stimulate Labour Refocus.
Summary: what has happened in the US and what happened with Brexit have much in common. There i...
Trade Agreements with EU Virtually Impossible.
Summary: The rejection of CETA by the regional government of Wallonia has demonstrated just how...
Fair Taxation On Corporate Profits (Rev3).
Summary: Multinational corporations have too many options of avoiding paying corporation tax. S...
A Brexit Plan for Labour
Summary: Theresa May in Birmingham claims the Conservatives are working for everyone but her po...
Labour’s Elephant in the Room: Immigration
Summary: Labour needs to articulate its policies on immigration before the Brexit negotiations ...
Austerity Madness Curable at Last
Summary: The economics underpinning the drive for austerity and cutting the deficit are fundame...
Fair Taxation On Corporate Profits.
Summary: Multinational corporations have too many options of avoiding paying corporation tax. S...
Tackling Inequality: Making Britain Fairer For All
Summary: The gross inequalities in British wealth distribution needs to be substantially rebala...
Neoliberalism: A Beginners Guide.
Summary: The word “neoliberalism” is used widely but surprisingly few people really...
Hinkley Point C: Can We Trust China?
Image: Proposed Chinese Reactor Design. Summary: The economics of Hinkley Point C project are s...
Hinkley Point Reactor: Doesn’t Work and Isn’t Safe.
Summary: the reactor design for Hinkley point C has not been made to work despite many years of...