Hm. Someone (Marx? Ruskin?) said that the problem with factory work was exactly that: that the worker wasremoved from the fruits of his labours. And from personal experience its certainly true that t… (View Post)

Aside from anything else, this must be tremendously diffixult to administer, both for government workers and businesses. (View Post)

Day 2 in Croatia. Trip to the Elaphiti Islands. Eating fresh fish and drinking a bottle of rather nice wine on a boat is almost unbearably agreeable. Not least because - my group being otherwise comp… (View Post)

Trump's MO is to come out with horrible positions so what comes after seems reasonable. If it works - and it might - the response might be 'ok America, we'll remove our regulations on … (View Post)

I'm on a short break in Dubrovnik. It's possibly the most visually appealing city I have ever been to. Venice comes close, but Venice has no altitude. It's astonishing. Every view is s… (View Post)