I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I recommend the excellent piece by Jon Cruddas MP in the New Statesman on why Labour lost the May 2015 General Election. It draws on polling and Value Model Analysis. I have written before about the use of using Value Models before. Labour is now only ahead in the Pioneer class. The Conservatives dominate the Prospector class … Read more
New Zealand is a very prosperous, free, and content country. As recently as the 1980s, it was not. Radical free market reforms helped make it a better place. And, those changes were introduced by a Labour government. I have been interested in how these radical reforms happened. Why was there no rioting in the streets? … Read more
President’s Juncker European Commission is accused of downgrading Europe’s environmental agenda. Green 10, a broad coalition of environmental NGOs, criticise him (see their letter of 12 September 2014 here), for: For the first time in 25 years there will be no fully empowered Commissioner for the Environment Sustainability seems to have disappeared from EU priorities … Read more
On 19th May the European Commission pushed through their new “Better Regulation Package”. President Juncker has made a big play about better regulation. He wants the EU to focus only a few areas and get rid of laws on the statute book that are not working. You’d think no-one was against the idea of better … Read more