The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Showing posts with label enterprise. Show all posts

Showing posts with label enterprise. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 September 2019

If the North wants to succeed it needs to place more value on enterprise than it does on government

Rather , the evidence shows that the strongest predictors of cross-national variation in entrepreneurial activity were normative, with so...

Friday, 21 November 2014

What are schools for? Nannying fussbucketry it seems!

**** You and I (like I guess most people) take the view that schools are there to educate children. And by this we mean things like teach ...

Thursday, 24 January 2013

"Prohibition always leads to supply and demand..." Jake Phillips, 15

**** As this little unintended social experiment shows: Acland Burghley School in Camden, North London, recently decided to implement...

Saturday, 1 September 2012

It never was the money...

At times, at least in the fevered on-line world, it seems that there’s a coalition of the heterodox. At least where talking about the...

Sunday, 1 July 2012

So it isn't all inherited privilege then?

**** In a really rather snide article describing various technology "moguls" as 'robber barons, a Guardian hack called Naug...

Friday, 20 April 2012

Free speech, free enterprise, free trade....

**** These are the three things that matter most to me - fighting for them is the reason I remain in politics. Little else matters when yo...

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Defining 'social enterprise' - the next pointless challenge for our lawmakers!

**** Our masters, having set about trying to define "sustainable development" and now being urged - by Hazel Blears no less - t...

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Enterprise and the denormalisation of food..a tale out of school

**** If you introduce a strict "healthy food" policy there are consequences. And one is enterprise and initiative : A schoolbo...

Saturday, 10 September 2011

Leeds City Region needs enterprise, excitement and initiative - not sure that's what its getting

Yesterday – following their extravagant summit - I wrote many a fine word about the problems with Leeds City Region LEP . The unrepresen...

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Enterprise Zones - what a good idea, let's have them everywhere

Now don't get me wrong, I really think that the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership should choose Bradford City Centre for it...

Saturday, 26 March 2011

"Everything is within the state, nothing without the state" - today's marcher motto

Back in the 1980s – that age evoked so charmingly by Ed Miliband recently – the word “alternative” was captured and held prisoner by the ...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

A parable of enterprise

John is speaking with his mate Jim in the club and Jim mentions in passing a bit of a wheelbarrow crisis he’s facing. It seems Jim needs to...

Friday, 28 August 2009

What the hell is a social enterprise anyway?

David Floyd (beanbags and bullsh!t) presents a witty little contribution to the debate about the “social enterprise” badge being promoted b...

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Is too much public sector employment strangling Northern cities?

For a long while I’ve felt a little like a lone voice in the wilderness regarding the damage that an over reliance on public sector employme...

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