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Apr 13, 2021
2 min

Open or shut case.

Following the rumours that pubs are to be allowed to open with further restrictions, can I, as a former licensee, say this is not opening at all. Though some campaigners may see a food-led pub, selling just soft drinks, as a step in the right direction, it would be the death knell for the trade itself. The problem the industry has now is how to tempt people back, how to get them back in the habit of going to the pub. As the weather warms up, how do they get Joe Public out of

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Mar 30, 2021
3 min

Economic Recovery.

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said that the support grants and payouts to businesses must end soon. There is no doubt that these payments will dry up and we must ask what must be done in the aftermath? We have seen many small local businesses and large businesses, especially in the leisure and hospitality sector and also many household names in the retail sector collapse into administration. There are also many cash rich companies that are “cutting the cloth” by driving down

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Government can only create the conditions for business to succeed not create wealth , direct strateg

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Feb 23, 2021
2 min

Government can only create the conditions for business to succeed not create wealth , direct strateg

Government seems to accruing to itself the role of deal maker in chief and is heavily into central planning of the economy, yesterday I received the most bizarre email from the Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng urging business to get out there and seize opportunities. I have read some delusional emails in my time this one took the biscuit, the biscuit barrel and most of the cake shop. It appears that this academic son of Eton with precious little business background is peddli

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Jan 14, 2021
1 min

Towards Recovery

M0 or cash in circulation is increasing in the UK at the rate of £10,000 GBP million per month due to the government money printing, while GDP is estimated to have declined by 10% in 2020. So, that means a stagnant economy and a glut of cash. “Money Supply M0 in the United Kingdom increased to 89547 GBP Million in November from 88720 GBP Million in October of 2020.” source: Bank of England Via Martyn Riley Boris Johnson in a stupendous act of self delusion is hitting the pres

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Jan 14, 2021
3 min

The End of the Brexit Transition

As I watched Sky News yesterday one headline popped up and stated that the FTSE and the pound had fallen drastically with the news of the new Covid-19 strain and with France and the EU halting all passenger and freight traffic due to the new strain. The report then went to Ian King, Sky’s Business editor. He gave a good explanation of the fall and the reasons behind it whilst pointing out that the fall was much bigger in the EU nations. He went on to explain the fall in the U

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The hypocrisy surrounding pub legislation

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

The hypocrisy surrounding pub legislation

Just a quarter of Britain’s pubs are open under this new lockdown, which masquerades as a tier system. Almost 30,000 pubs are currently closed in England and government support, currently just a third of that available in Wales, does not even cover the basic fixed costs. The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has estimated that Britain’s pubs have invested up to £500m in anti-Covid measures. Yet hundreds of thousands of jobs are at stake, with many already lost. This autho

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

Royal Fail

Imagine a world where changing trends was already seeing a shift from physical to online shopping. Then imagine a virus stopping great swathes of people leaving the house. From there, you might be tempted to draw the conclusion that, if you were in the delivery business, now is the optimum time to make money? This month of English lockdown has seen parcel volumes reaching Black Friday levels almost every week. To disprove your theory, in quite dramatic style, comes Royal Mail

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Dec 7, 2020
2 min

Following the science?

This is the Emperor Justinian whose long and successful reign in the 6th century was marked by by two events, massive crop failure across the Roman world when ash spewed into atmosphere from a volcanic eruption in south asia, this brought an end to the Romano-British dominance in the British Isles and what is known as the migration period or dark ages, the second was the Justinian plague. In 542, a devastating outbreak of Bubonic Plague, second only to Black Death of the 14th

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Free Markets and why they are not ‘Left or Right’

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Dec 7, 2020
4 min

Free Markets and why they are not ‘Left or Right’

An Introduction When you hear the term ‘Free Market’ the instinct is to think of capitalism. Capitalism is based on private property and the right to open shop on that premises and trade your product for someone’s dollar that they placed less of a value on, than your own item. But by far the most important right in the free market, are property rights. Not all property owners seek to turn a profit but instead wish to start a community within the market. An example of a commu

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Dec 4, 2020
3 min

Restaurant at the end of the Universe

For those of us living in the north and midlands of England, the nearest restaurant might just as well be in the far flung reaches of the galaxy. We are not allowed to go there anyway. But just imagine there was a satirical science fiction show, with quasi-political undertones, that set out to create the barmiest rules possible for one of those evil eating establishments. Is it the food that leads to the spread of the virus? One would assume not, since many, many businesses a

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Dec 3, 2020
2 min

Punishment of the Pubs goes on.

NHS Track and Trace data, which has been released on a weekly basis, shows the hospitality sector (with all it’s Covid-Safe measures, brought in at great expense) makes little or no difference whatsoever to the overall infection rate. Yet the punishment of the pubs goes on, with vast numbers in the North and Midlands threatened with being closed till at least spring. I say “at least” because how many of them will reopen ever? After months of inactivity, it could then take yea

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Dec 3, 2020
2 min

Clowns to the left.

Last December we were warned not to let Jeremy Corbyn loose with the nation’s money. To a large extent, people rejected socialism and, instead, voted in socialism. With the news that Rishi Sunak is proposing a public sector pay freeze, it looks like Margaret Thatcher’s words are coming true….”The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Over the course of 2020, the Blue Socialists have been responsible for a spending splurge the likes of

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The Nightmare before and After Christmas!

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Dec 3, 2020
3 min

The Nightmare before and After Christmas!

On Wednesday the truth about Christmas and the plan that this Conservative government is planning to lay before us is absolutely insane and is a stab at the very fabric of the nation and its people. For nearly a year now they have fed us with information which flip flops from one Covid-19 policy to another. We entered lockdown 2 and were told that this should end on December 2nd reverting back to the tiered system based on regional statistics. We have to remember that the Cov

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Nov 19, 2020
2 min

Ministry of Defence – not War

“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives” – Ronald Reagan It is plainly obvious that this, and other governments are doing far too much of the latter nowadays, but are they even doing the former – and most important? Protecting the people has to include protecting their interests and assets. As discussed yesterday, the UK’s fishing waters are a national asset, but where is the protection? As recently as 2015, EU vessels caught 683,000 tonnes (£48

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Nov 19, 2020
2 min

So long …. and thanks for all the fish.

An “island made of coal, surrounded by a sea of fish” – Aneurin Bevan When the UK leaves the EU, we believe our waters should come with us. Since 1984, our archipelago nation has been a net importer of fish. That is a disgrace, a testament to the failure of our political leaders. The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was a French invention, hurriedly put together and agreed by the original six EEC members in June 1970. The timing was no accident, nor was the rush. It was a policy

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Nov 19, 2020
2 min

Test and Trace

No, not that one – the is the Libertarian Party’s new function. TEST the government’s Covid fighting strategy in the harsh environment of the real world and try to TRACE signs of common sense in the Westminster bubble that far too many of our elected representatives live in. Failure of lockdowns is all around us. Shops are closing down, pubs are closed that will never reopen and redundancies are gathering pace, often thousands at a time. Just this week, ABTA warn that if the

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Nov 6, 2020
2 min

Last Orders

If you’re in a pub when the final bell tolls tonight, you may possibly be witnessing the last “last orders” for many of these establishments. Pubs are being blamed for the spike in “cases” of Covid which coincides with the reopening of schools and colleges and the onset of winter. Oddly enough, this strange phenomenon called “winter” happens every year. They have seen their businesses take a near-fatal hit, barely recover through the summer, suffered intrusions into the priva

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Nov 6, 2020
2 min

There’s a GAP in the market

The effects of lockdown are about to hit the High Street as a steady stream of closures becomes a tidal wave. After a three month loss of trade, many independent retailers gave up and now even chain stores are following. Peacocks, now owned by Edinburgh Woollen Mill, are on the verge of their second spell in administration. Gap, the American owned fashion chain, are deciding whether to close its whole UK operation. The worst possible thing for a businessman or potential inves

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Oct 20, 2020
3 min

Opportunism, China, Covid and Success

Opportunism is the ability to take advantage of a situation. You may not have created the situation. It may be an accident. But, you nonetheless exploit it for all it is worth. We do not know the origins of Covid: lab or outside; deliberate or accident; handled sincerely or covered up at least at first? We probably will never know definitively. What we do know are the consequences which include (in no particular order)… excess deaths from multiple causes a health delivery res

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Oct 14, 2020
2 min

The Elizabeth Ages

As a young man I watched the battles between the last vestiges of dinosaur socialism as displayed between militant trades unionism most notably the NUM and the dynamic new brand of conservatism that became known as Thatcherism. A solid belief in the virtues of capitalism and free markets. Could I have foreseen the consequences of those battles then, I would have made the decision to leave the United Kingdom and seek opportunities abroad as a young man. The seventies were a mi

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