Category: Wheat & Chaff
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Gary Lineker
Dear friends. What a farce! Claiming the “right of freedom of expression”, a “celebrity” football commentator abuses our highly valued “freedom” to dash out at the Government working hard to save us from waves of illegal immigrants. As the German would say: “Schuster, bleib bei Deinen Leisten (Cobbler, stick to your last)!“ Instead, he is…
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Carbon conundrum
Much has happened since I wrote the last blog. The change of prime minister has been welcomed by financial markets, and Rishi Sunak has shown himself to be a sensible leader, even if there are questions about his true convictions. There are many issues that his government must address, after Liz Truss set out to…
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Shock therapy
Today I want to share my concerns about the turbulent first month of the new British government. When Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his mini-budget, everyone was stunned. Here was a government determined to drastically reform the British tax system even if it might be initially unpopular politically. But what Kwarteng and Liz Truss failed to predict…
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Discipline
Hello, this is Wilhelm. Today’s blog is about the end of Boris Johnson and, in a malfunctioning government, what needs to happen next. An election manifesto is not a government programme. Despite his love of Winston Churchill, Johnson never understood that you need a strategy (or a programme) to win a battle and tactics based…
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Tax cuts
Hello, this is Wilhelm. Today’s blog is in response to rumours that the government is looking to introduce a new tax on energy companies. As we face a severe cost of living crisis, there is an answer staring the government in the face. In fact, it only requires Johnson, Sunak and their approval-ratings obsessed advisers…
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Partygate
Hello, this is Wilhelm. Today’s blog is about the hullabaloo that could bring down the government, and why the wrong lessons are being learned. The civil servants and political advisers in number 10 Downing Street (and even Boris Johnson himself) made a bad mistake in having a series of social events while the British people…
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Trains
Hello, this is Wilhelm. I love trains. Some of you may know this. They are grand and fast and powerful and beautiful and they move on man-made skeletons of the Earth. And so today’s blog is about why the UK must do something about its trains. According to the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm the word…
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Woke
Hello, this is Wilhelm. This blog discusses the issues of woke politics and cancel culture. The culture wars have long felt like something from America, but in the last couple of years a British version has become alive as well, with statues destroyed by rioters and a war on the country’s colonial history is only…
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Vaccines
Hello, this is Wilhelm. In this blog I will discuss the incredible achievement that is the Covid vaccine and how it proves how well capitalism works – if we let it. Last week I had my second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. In the year after the world was first locked down, a few pharmaceutical…
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Commodities
Hello, this is Wilhelm. In this blog I discuss some trends I have noticed about the commodities market, and how I believe this could benefit investors. Whilst the services economy has been effectively shut by lockdown, manufacturing has already recovered, with trade volumes higher than they were before coronavirus. We are actually seeing a boom…