A colleague at work asked an interesting question the other day. He was quite sensitive of the fact that politics is personal and potentially quite divisive subject, so he didn’t expect us to have to answer, but he asked anyway; “Do you consider yourself left wing or right wing?” My immediate reaction was: “Well I • Read More »
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And Now the Small Business Signatories
April 27, 2015 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | No Comments | Filed in: business, politics.With less than two weeks to go until the election we now have a letter from 5,000 small businesses pledging their allegiance to one party and it’s the blue party again. Furthermore, that letter is once again published in The Telegraph where, this morning, the newspaper’s website calls it a “boost for David Cameron”…
American Politics
September 18, 2008 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | 4 Comments | Filed in: politics.As a Brit I must say I find American politics fascinating, it’s like a circus show. Whilst we have 3 main politic parties, with only 2 usually battling it out, the US 2-party track is a peculiar beast and particularly odd because, from my point of view, it simply polarises opinion. Although George W Bush • Read More »
Rip-off Britain
May 31, 2008 | By Paul Mackenzie Ross | 2 Comments | Filed in: economics.I’ve been thinking about the current worldwide price rises in food, oil and energy and in the cost of living and credit going up. It’s happening in a lot of places in the world and for months the UK seemed to be largely unaffected, especially since the USA seemed to bearing the brunt of the • Read More »