In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”
— Geoff Mulgan · Finance
The World Motivation
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”
— Geoff Mulgan · Finance
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.
There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.
The biggest difficulty in film industry today is not that of getting dates, actors or finance, but writers. We don't get writers. They are like heart surgeons with whom you need to meet after fixing an appointment.
The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of game playing. There ought to be comprehensive childcare, a comprehensive approach to housing, a sane, rational way to finance education. But I also strongly believe in the notion of fundamental individual freedom.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.