Dan Tubb is a former Venture Capitalist focused on Emerging Technologies & Digital Trends. Now he mines Bitcoin & podcasts about the end of the financial system. In this episode, Dan explained to me his terrifying hypothesis about what the future of the world of finance faces. The British economy […]
Austerity
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Since the UK went into lockdown, the UK economy shrank by almost 6%, the chancellor has announced tens of billions in public spending to prop up businesses, and we are currently losing an estimated £2.4 billion everyday in economic activity. This isn’t a UK based phenomenon, almost every major government […]
Ryan Hoey, a politics student at Queen’s University Belfast. I got in touch with Ryan after he wrote a piece for https://www.challengesni.com/ entitled “Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity”. I was curious to explore the arguments he laid out in his piece, especially given the noise coming from the left about how the […]
In this guest blog post, we feature a guest post by Paul Harrold. Paul is an addiction worker at an alcohol rehab in London known as Cassiobury Court. Paul’s infographic is titled “cuts to addiction services in England and Wales since 2012”. The infographic discusses Government cuts to addiction services […]
The government announced that there would be a shake-up in education funding, with an extra £1.3 billion over the next three years. The move seems to be to quell anti-austerity sentiments within the party and to address public concerns over a lack of funding for public services. In a statement […]
The Conservatives have been widely criticised for the numerous apparent U-turns that they have made since the election. They have seen their policy shifting from within as a result of both the DUP coalition and public pressure. During the campaign, the Conservatives and Theresa May were targeted by members of […]