Tube strike conspiracy theory

[phone rings] BJ: Wot ho, Bozza here. BC: Hello. I'm Bob Crow, and I'm evil. I'm going to lead the Tube maintenance workers out on strike (a 5% pay rise just isn't enough, you see) and paralyse the city. BC: [evil laugh] BJ: Oh. That's dashed inconvenient. Is there, erm, anything we can do to … Continue reading Tube strike conspiracy theory

On chain restaurants, and their opponents

Nando's is great, in general. Fact. Separately, I've been to the Vortex in Stoke Newington, and it's one of the worst venues I've ever had the misfortune to frequent. Fact. It was a quality piece of British [1] service, indeed: they told our party we could eat there, then told us we couldn't, then told … Continue reading On chain restaurants, and their opponents

The last word on why the deficit doesn’t matter

Chris Dillow makes sense: "If people are prepared to lend to government at less than 1% real interest, let’s bleed them dry, because cheap money won’t last forever; infrastructure spending should be undertaken now, whilst it's cheap." The construction collapse will have the same effect on labour costs, which we can offset by removing the … Continue reading The last word on why the deficit doesn’t matter