Month: November 2021
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There’s a lot of bull in this China shop
Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021 Well, forgetting the bull for the present, there’s a lot of blue water – literally in this case – between the fractious business of managing relations with China and doing the sort of pre-boy on the burning deck routine we’re seeing in Australia from the government and its fellow travellers. There […]
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Let’s Not Forget
Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021 There’s a lovely verse in Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 track – it has headed my personal hit parade for more than four decades – and it seems apt, almost totemic, as a way of describing life as I am living it these days: He’s got this dream about buying some […]
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Is it time to consider a universal wage?
Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 Every cloud has a silver lining. Well, that’s if you’re lucky and you believe in ancient aphorisms. But there’s certainly a silver lining under the big covid cloud if the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) attracts you. Serious academic study of the concept and of its associated cost is […]
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