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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
Licence
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A journalist in the (Euro)zone
People talk about sports stars playing particularly well when they are ‘in the zone’. I suggest that something similar can happen with journalists. But actually Ambrose Evans Pritchard has been ‘in the zone’ for quite a few years now. His … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Media, including BBC bias
Britain – the angry country
Returning to Britain after two weeks on a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, I was struck by how the some of the stories making the headlines were the same as when I left. Controversy still raged over the … Continue reading
On TV tonight
The recording I did for Channel 4 is on TV tonight. The programme appears at 7.55. I await with trepidation to see what the editors have done. My children say that I look ‘scary’ in the picture on the 4thought … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Media, including BBC bias, Parenting, Welfare benefits
The Moral Maze of ‘I demand my rights!’
I appeared on The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 last night talking about human rights. It was fun. Afterwards the four of us who had been the ‘witnesses’ interrogated by the regular panel were leaving and waiting for a … Continue reading
A mean toff on Channel 4
I recorded an appearance for Channel 4′s series, 4thought, yesterday. I went to the studios of Waddell Media just off Tottenham Court Rd. It is a strange but rather clever format. For the viewer, it appears that someone is talking … Continue reading
We need quantitative easing
Rather unexpectedly I was invited onto the Today programme this morning (appearing at 7.50am) to talk about another bout of quantitative easing. Then the programme decided we should talk about the ban on short-selling of bank shares in France and … Continue reading
Selfishness is good: the new morality according to Simon Cowell
SIMON Cowell has told US X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger how much he admires her – for being “selfish and ruthless”. Nicole joined the panel after Cheryl Cole was axed just two weeks into her American dream. In a thinly-veiled … Continue reading
Page 3 girl quotes Milton Friedman
I think the subs at the Sun are having a laugh. Today’s girl quotes Einstein, rather out of context. Yesterday, Kelly from Daventry quoted Milton Friedman, the nobel prize-winning economist. I would love to think that the ideas of Milton … Continue reading
The heavy British tax on having an old-fashioned kind of family – a sort that is known to be good for children
Here is an important article about how families with one parent working and the other looking after the children – the old model that worked well – is being more highly taxed in Britain than in other advanced countries. People … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Media, including BBC bias, Parenting, Tax and growth, Welfare benefits
Tests of claimants in Burnley and Aberdeen found 68.6 per cent did not have a valid claim
The evidence keeps piling up that many – no, most – of those on sickness and incapacity benefits should not be there. The latest news on this will not have been seen by many well-educated people reading ‘quality’ newspapers because … Continue reading