Further to this long-running occasional C@W theme , here's an apposite Graun piece.   Coronavirus is our chance to completely rethink ...

The signs are everywhere: t'unions reckon their hour of revival is arrived.  Well, the heroes of the hour are Key Workers and they are ...

With the Corona Virus in the UK seemingly evaporating at the moment, we may see a V shaped recovery for the economy. This would be amazing n...

It has been hard with Lockdown to get to grips with the virus. It creeps up unseen, an invisible enemy as President Trump says. You don'...

That's it, really.  Ambiguity intended. ND

Well there's been a lot of tripe and premature stuff to contend with, n'est-ce pas ?  Today I attended a (virtual) lecture by this f...

One of the key areas coming out of the current Covid crisis is the frankly terminal shock to the retail and leisure sectors. There simply ha...

Pretty much everyone in the western world has in mind a wage-slave model of how economies work, the emphasis being on 'wage'.  You (...

It has been a long time coming, but finally the penny is dropping that lockdown is over and the Covid party can start to end. Unfortunately,...

You've probably gathered that I have a hobby of observing the loose cadre of idealistic, educated Corbynist / Momentumite types, dating ...

The FTSE today closed at 5900. It is a long way off January's 7674 level  - a nice 24% down. From just that you would expect a bad yea...

Yesterday I needed to take a longish car journey for the first time in weeks, and was listening to the radio accordingly.  In every bloody c...

From our longtime BTL champion, Electro-Kevin Well here we are, regulars at the Capitalists (not) @ Work Arms and how honoured I am to sp...

Here are we, about 10 weeks into the depths of the crisis. It came very suddenly and took the whole of the West by surprise. East Asian coun...

All manner of interesting things are happening as the lockdown and general paralysis works through the energy system.  Top of the list is, o...

Virgin are closing their hub airport at Gatwick. This is very bad news for those who work in and near the airport. Virgin has been a mainsta...

Throughout my adult life in the UK, Health and Safety has risen up the agenda like far faster than the banal topic ever deserved to. It di...

... He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust alike As so often, the Bible has...

So (congrats Boris!) I saw snuck out this week by the Prime Minister was finally a review of how people enter the UK. Now the virus is under...

This is the biggest unknown question at the moment  - jut how bad is Covid-19 and how bad is the economy? Boris is back at work today, but...