Her Majesty's Worst Ever PM

Little did she know...[Many apologies - the initial version of this post omitted PM Heath altogether. Can't imagine how I left him out]You can't help wondering what Her Majesty thinks of the arrogant dunderheads she's had to deal with since her Coronation in 1953. Since she came to the throne she's had 11 Prime Ministers, and almost without exception, they have all fallen short.In her name, and without a shot being fired, they have surrendered...

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Influenceables Outpoint Influentials.

I've been reading Connected over the past few weeks and yesterday went to see Nicholas Kristakis talk about it. It's a sprawling discussion of how networks work coupled with some interesting insights about why they work. But for me, the most important sentence in the book is this citing of the work of Duncan Watts et al.It turns out that influential people are not enough: the population must also contain influenceable people, and it may be that...

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State Of Collapse

They thought he was a genius too*Never mind what your politics are, and never mind that the ONS has revised up Q4 economic growth to 0.3% (whoopee!), surely nobody can believe this government should remain in power. They are totally exhausted - out of energy, out of ideas, and out of credibility. Take the appalling case of Mid-Staffs NHS Trust. Here was a hospital that ticked all the boxes laid down by Labour's commissars, and got top marks. Yet for patients it was a hell-hole from which many did not escape alive. Even more disgusting,...

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Better George

No time for a proper blog today, but Tyler has just read George's Mais Lecture. Overall, it's rather encouraging - in fact, Tyler almost feels he could have written long passages himself. True, we have heard much of it before, but he leaves us in no doubt that he sees the rapid build-up in government debt as being a much more significant threat to continued growth than early cuts in public spending. Specifically disagreeing with the left-wing economics...

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Tough Choices Are Tough

Furring up the public spending arteries: Labour's anti-obesity campaign in action*As regular readers will know, we have long called for the abolition of the £2.3bn pa Regional Development Agencies (eg see here). We have never seen any convincing evidence to suggest they have been successful in developing our struggling regional economies, and they have burned shedloads of taxpayers' money.So we were delighted when others such as St Vince...

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No Compromise On Openness.

This is the seventh slide in a deck of twenty that is posted online. It comes from an agency presentation that was made to an invited industry audience and it looks interesting. Yet, six of the slides are like this one or completely black. Now I don't know if this was how the presentation was made, but I'm guessing that it wasn't and that this is a bit of censorship for proprietary reasons. That's fine. It's smart to keep your best slides back (as...

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Debt Trap - Lessons From History

1819 - what happens when government debt gets too high[Warning: this is another of those posts that turned out to be quite long]Are we too worried about the government's spiralling debts? According to the left-wing economics consensus the answer is yes. They reckon that gross debt of 83% of GDP, increasing at 11 percentage points pa (OECD projections), is perfectly sustainable into some unspecified "medium term". One of the arguments...

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Sticking With Stalin

Tyler has just finished reading Andrew Roberts' new history of WW2. It's actually rather disappointing, but as always there are bits of history that jump right out as being the tragic first run of some current farce. Take the wartime exploits of Comrade Stalin. In 1941, this supreme bully presided over a government and army so weakened by his horrific mismanagement that it pretty well imploded when confronted with the German invasion. As the...

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Stay Out Of the Picture.

Some time ago I wrote about what was wrong with conferences, but I've become increasingly irritated by the distracting antics of official photographers. They are constantly interrupting my attention via1) Their insistence on taking multiple shots of what is essentially the same subject seemingly on the basis that the more attempts they make, the greater their chance of success.2) Their exaggerated unobtrusiveness as they tip-toe into and out of the...

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The Confidence Thing

But he's not weighed down with debtAs we all know, if you lay 100 economists' letters end to end they still won't reach a conclusion. Except that this morning's two letters to the FT are packed with conclusions, especially the conclusion that we shouldn't cut public spending any time soon. Labour peer Lord Layard and nine other eminent economists (including four previous members of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and two Nobel...

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OMG (Cont)

So.The first January fiscal deficit since the Black Death. The month when all those lovely Corporation Tax payments, and all those lovely self-assessment income tax cheques are supposed to come in, has instead turned into the Black Hole of Death.Tyler's back-of-envelope says that we're now on course for 2009-10 total borrowing of £180-185bn, compared to Darling's latest forecast of £178bn. Well, that's not so bad, you say....

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£8.6m Defra Blood-Boiler

Right, deep breaths...As you will know, Labour have turned HMG into the UK's biggest advertiser - £540m in 2008-09 -  and these Defra ads are absolutely par for the course.Meanwhile BOM reader Ian and Beverley D have been keeping a count of the HMG ads they've heard on Heart FM. They only listen for a few minutes when they first wake up, but in a recent two week period they heard ads for:Metropolitan Police – Community Support OfficersHealth and Safety Executive – Safe Loading of VansNHS – MMR vaccinationsJobcentre Plus – Help with...

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Make Marketing Consistent.

Cusquena is very fine beer. It seems I drink quite a lot of it - either that or I don't go to the recycling plant very frequently.Anyway, my friend Amanda told me it was the best beer in South America (she should know)and that the detail imprinted on the bottle depicts the ruins of Incan temples that can be found in Peru. They're distinctive bottles because of that.When I first became aware of Cusquena, it was sold in cases that offered two free...

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Jobs Haircut

The other alternativeYesterday Tyler had a haircut. As usual he went to a shop owned and staffed by the Surrey Italians, one of a small local chain that's operated here for decades. But for the first time ever, his hair was cut by Il Padrone, the man who set up and owns the biz. Was there a problem?"Certainly there's a problem. Our takings are down 30%, the landlords won't cut the rent, and our bills are going through the roof.""30%? But...

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The Costs Of Branding.

As I keep saying, imposed branding is only skin-deep. Your customers want to connect with your corporate DNA because that is where those buzzwords authenticity and consistency are truly proven. Or undermin...

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Does Anyone Know How To Fly This Thing?

Going upLadies and gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. You may have noticed we're currently flying through an area of turbulence. There is absolutely nothing to be concerned about, and we will soon level out. Althoooough... just as a precaution you might want to return to your seat immediately and assume the brace position. And if there are any pilots on board perhaps they would make themselves known to a member of the cabin crew....

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Don't Aspire. Be Great.

This grocery store/restaurant has the right idea. Your customers don't want mission statements that aspire to greatness. They want you to be great today, tomorrow and forev...

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The T Word

"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." (Luke 2:1, King James Bible, 1611)"At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire." (Luke 2:1, New Living Translation, 2007)Just like NuEverything, New Bibles don't like to mention the word tax. Much better to call it something else, like census*.NuLabour have been...

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Fear Of Clowns

More than a passing resemblance to Bliar Imp.Tyler has just discovered what's been ailing him all these years. It's called coulrophobia - a morbid fear of clowns - and apparently P Diddy (whoever he is) suffers from it. Suddenly it all makes sense. As you will not need reminding, the country is currently in the clutches of the most terrrifying bunch of clowns ever to escape from a high security Big Top. Coulrophobia...

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Pass The Parcel

The wrapping fell off this oneOK, cue the music. The game works like this:individual and company players build up huge parcels of debt they can never pay off;the bank players who've lent the money to the individual and company players pass on the parcels as quickly as possible;the music slows down, and the bank players suddenly realise that they're now holding other people's parcels which they suspect are not...

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Does The Swedish Model Actually Work?

The independent Kunskapsskolan schools certainly look better*As regular BOM readers will know, Tyler is a big fan of the Swedish free schools model - the one that allows new independent schools to set up in competition with local authority schools, and then lets parents choose whether to have their children educated in an authority school or have the authority pay for a place at the free school. Choice and competition to drive...

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