Brexit (/’breksit, breqzit/; a portmanteau of ‘British’ and ‘exit’) is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum held on 23 June 2016 in which 51.9 percent of those voting supported leaving the EU, the Government invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, starting a two-year … Continue reading “Boris’s Brexit blindness”
If the CAP fits it might be a Tam O’Shanter Which breed of sheep is it best not to keep under the subsidies of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? This and other intriguing questions are discussed in this piece published at aggravations.org on 9 August 2016. One of the important questions arising from the Brexit … Continue reading “Does the Brexit vote mean an end to the not-keeping-sheep industry under the CAP?”
Note: This is Part 2 of ‘Politics and economics explained’, an assignment happily entered into for my immediate family and made freely available here to others. The narrative is made more accessible to non-economists as a result of its unreliability and through the addition of references to a number of films which relate to the … Continue reading “Part 2: Dr Strangelove to coronavirus”
I could be watching any one of four codes of football on television – and Alpha would be none the wiser. This is despite the fact that two of our boys work in AFL – one of those four codes. Having been very loosely associated years ago with the Saskatchewan Roughriders (winners of the Grey … Continue reading “The scrummaging and music of the Rugby World Cup”
No. Title Cat.* Date published 1 How did rural people vote in the (2016) Federal Election? Pol 6 July 2016 2 English rugby: no longer Down Under Rem 15 July 2016 3 Does the Brexit vote mean an end to the not-keeping-sheep industry under the CAP? Pol 16 July 2016 4 For Leanne Coleman’s birthday … Continue reading “Bloggs 1-63 with direct URL links”
Reprinted from Croakey. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig…two case studies of economic change Editor: Marie McInerney. Author: Gordon Gregory: December 6 2016. Much has been written and said about the reasons behind Brexit, the Trump ascendancy and the move away from the traditional major parties at this year’s Australian election. A … Continue reading “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig…two case studies of economic change”
