Tag Archives: Politics

Business Budget Warnings: Whether they get it right or wrong

Businesses often issue strong warnings when governments introduce new Budgets, taxes or regulations. Some predictions prove accurate. Others fade quickly or are shown to be exaggerated.

I’m going to compare some major examples where businesses warned of economic damage, identifying when they were right, when they were wrong, and which political party was responsible for the Budget or policy.

Computer Says ####: Why you should never Trust A Computer

AI and ML are great tools, they are not Experts. You need to validate what they tell you. a story of how my last blog post could have told a totally different story if I had not sense checked it and validated the calculations the computer did.

Civilisations Real Cost: UK Tax vs. The Private Market Price Tag

What Your Tax Really Buys: It’s Not a Bill, It’s a Bumper Policy! 🛡️Stop thinking of tax as a deduction—start seeing it as a collective insurance policy against life’s biggest expenses.

Reform Isn’t Trumpism: What Trotsky Can (and Can’t) Teach Us

Using Trotsky’s classic 1930s analysis of fascism, this post explains how modern UK politics compares to the US experience of Trumpism — and why Nigel Farage and Reform UK, despite sharing some populist themes, are not the British MAGA. A clear, evidence-linked look at inequality, class, media, trust, and identity shaping two democracies under similar pressures but radically different outcomes.

Trotsky Predicted Trump: What Trotsky Can (and Can’t) Teach Us.

Did Leon Trotsky accidentally predict Trumpism? In 1932, Trotsky described how fascism grows out of economic crisis, political paralysis, and a disillusioned middle class. When you compare that with late-20th and early-21st century America, the similarities are… uncomfortably recognisable. But the differences matter just as much. Here’s what Trotsky gets right — and where the comparison breaks down.

The Unhappy Masses: 19th Century Public Protests

Over the last few posts, we’ve looked at how the UK’s national debt has been shaped by empire-building and war. That naturally leads to another question: did ordinary people in the 19th century push back against any of this?
The short answer: yes—loudly, and often.

The Empirical Benificiaries: Who in the UK saw the rewards of the Empire.

So having looked at how the UK’s national debt is related to Large wars and the maintenance of the Empire this asks the question , was it beneficial to the majority of UK citizens?.

War for Gold: Deconstructing the Financial Benefits of the Second Boer War

Continuing from my previous post – I look into the war that ended the era of fiscal success and who benefitted from it financially, as we are still paying off this debt.