Listen up people. I’m off on a train to London town in a few minutes to sort out the mess capitalism has got us into. I shoud be done by early afternoon so there’ll be a bit of time for sightseeing, I imagine.
What this does mean though is that I won’t be blogging today. Now, I know this will come as a blow to many of you, so to soften the pain heres a couple of quick tasters of things I may condescend to attend to on my return>
First, I think I may engage with the returned Comrade Semple on the matter of how clean technologies might be introduced in a way that does not batter the poor, stopping along the way to talk of Mr Thomas Kuhn, cold war warrier turned scion of political science, by mistake.
Second, I will seek to give some shortish shrift to Duncan’s well-intentioned but I suspect slightly bonkers-when-you-think-it-through-and-possibly-the-product-of-a-Friday-liquid-lunch-in-the-city idea about hypothecated bonds, based on a cunning plan by the French.
Yes, even the normally economically leftwingly infallible can get things wrong in their desire to put things right and quick. Consider, while I am away, the effect of a hypothecatication on the workings of local democracy and the issues of power which come into play. Good ruminating, though.
