Gallowglaich

Recent comments read about the marvels and wonders of individualism in the context of  "Free Markets and Capitalism" started me thinking of passages from Ms Rand's strange and disturbing book Atlas Shrugged, which has had an influence upon quite a few males in the English-speaking world. If truth were told, probably too much influence from such an irrational and peculiar writer. The tendency in some to allocate supernatural "God-like" invisible hand powers to the phenomenon claimed to exist known as "Market Forces" also sprang to mind. That willingness to transfer and projection of responsibility for unpleasantness onto something fundamentally and necessarily unproveable, as a means of avoiding personal actions or even consideration: "An Act of Market Forces". Nothing we can do about that. What cowardly throwaway nonsense.  At worst this could conjure up the old true meaning of the word “idiot” from the Greek “idiotes”, meaning “one’s own”. I...

UK Parliamentary proceedings from 25th January 2021.  Graeme Biggar, Director-General at the National Economic Crime Centre, NCA. Not surprisingly,  almost completely unreported in UK media generally,  certainly not on the BBC, which essentially now is simply a mouthpiece for the Tory Party group in position. Curiously reported on the day in City AM, the freebie City newsheet and London Standard, Lebedev owned.   Some probably looking at ways to get him out to be replaced by some greedy little crooked compromised little cash-sucking brainless cloth puppet. The hope is that UK has retained enough people in position of some honesty and integrity (as in the US one hopes) and that the system has managed to be kept at least somewhat intact to get cleaning up started in 2021. Harder in London than in US now, even though smaller scale. Ultimately my hope is for some form of “Govt. of National Unity”, but not very hopeful. It has penetrated a long way.   Double-header (...