Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label investment. Show all posts
Friday, 3 May 2019

Hey politicians, write your own quotes don't just take whatever dribble the press office gives you...

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A case in point: “Whilst at this point in the bid development we have not identified specific schemes being proposed within constituencies,...
Friday, 30 November 2018

Trains are not the solution to any of the UK's transport problems, they are the problem.

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I've felt for some while that we have our transport planning, infrastructure, investment and systems all, as my mum would put it, kecky-...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018

It's time to stop obsessing about trains - they aren't the infrastructure solution we need

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Let's imagine for a minute that I'm going to give you several billion pounds for the purpose of making the North of England's in...
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Saturday, 27 January 2018

London's property market - are the vultures circling yet?

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My wife owns a share in an apartment on the Costa del Sol and it's lovely. But as successful investments go, it isn't one. The area...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

Should Council's be doing this?

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I understand the financial imperative for local authorities to seek investments that will provide (possibly) assured future income. But ther...
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Thursday, 22 June 2017

Young people are neoliberals - they just don't realise it yet so let's help them.

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It seems to me that the real issue young people have is feeling excluded from the benefits of our capitalist, neoliberal society not that ca...
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Monday, 30 May 2016

Why we can't buy Ghanaian chocolate bars

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**** I was quite struck by this article about a woman making artisan chocolate in Ghana : Ruth had come over to meet potential trade buyer...
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Thursday, 26 November 2015

In which a Guardian writer bemoans the lack of slums...

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Or so it seems : In this mix of complexity and incompleteness lies the possibility for those without power to assert “we are here” and...
Sunday, 25 October 2015

Divestment doesn't work (but then we knew that)

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**** The economists Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk found that sin stocks outperform other stocks by 2.5 per cent per year. This has e...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

If we're to serve tomorrow's economy we need to invest more in roads and less in rail

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Since 2001 rail travel in the UK has increased by over 50% (and has more than doubled since rail privatisation in the 1990s). I'...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Another reminder why we need to spend more money on our roads

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**** Even in London : More than half of Londoners commute to work by car or other light vehicles (including car pools). Transit accounts fo...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Roads are much more important than railways - public investment should reflect this fact. It doesn't.

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A bit of Britain's most important transport network No matter how desperate the banana republic, the international airport is alwa...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

The evidence suggests new roads won't generate more journeys.

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**** It has been a commonplace view - supported in the past with some evidence - that building new roads didn't work as a strategy to ...
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Friday, 17 October 2014

We already have a 'progressive consumption tax'...

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**** Bill Gates has responded to the Thomas Piketty wealth tax proposal by moaning that it's not fair. By which he means not fair on ...
Saturday, 31 May 2014

Driverless cars. Or why we shouldn't waste our money on high speed rail.

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**** I know I'm a bit grumpy sometimes but I still take the view that the essential limitation of public transport is that is takes yo...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Leaving Bradford? Your views please

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**** OK, I most of you aren't from (or especially interested in) Bradford but for those who are there's a blog post at the Bingle...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Further evidence that government and investment don't mix...

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**** Via the fabulous Leeds Citizen blog: An investment fund set up by local councils to overcome “market failure” in the banking syst...
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Friday, 24 January 2014

Larry Summers embraces the New Fascism

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**** “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” Benito Mussolini There's been a deal of commen...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Detroit and Liverpool: thoughts on urban renewal

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**** We've all seen parts of the crisis in Detroit - the bankruptcy of the City government, the abandoned houses you can buy for a few...
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Monday, 18 March 2013

Business & politics - why Heseltine is wrong

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**** There's a sort of conservatism - let's call it the "business right" - that sees politics through the prism of a thi...
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