There was that article in the newspaper last week. Because of the fixed interest rates on the council (our) debt and the current very interest rates the city lost $1.4b. The council explained very quickly we actually did not lose anything. Because we did not have that money. So the loss is a loss on […]
We are in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The real estate prices went 20% up in one year. The cost of renting is growing in a similar manner. Yet our political heavyweights play games with words working hard not to address the real problem. They all talk about (non-)affordability, first-buyers, property ladder. They never […]
“What nonsense all this is; do you mean that a poet cannot be thankful for grass and wild flowers without connecting it with theology; let alone your theology?” To which I answer, “Yes; I mean he cannot do it without connecting it with theology, unless he can do it without connecting it with thought. If […]
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. — Voltaire
The thesis of the book is that the Socialist movement does not lead to Socialism. This is partly because of compromise and cowardice; but partly also because men have a dim indestructible respect for property, even in its disgusting disguise of modern monopoly. Therefore, instead of the intentional result, Socialism, we shall have the unintentional […]
The many men so beautiful And they all dead did lie; And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. — S. T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner