Category: Governance

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French Socialism Finally Delivers Equality

Oeko Angebot

Macron Promises Students “Dialogue,” Immediately Fires Tear Gas to Open the Conversation French Socialism Finally Delivers Equality: Every Lycée Now Equally Broke, Equally Flammable PARIS — France’s classrooms have been burning, blockaded and besieged for more than a week, and the nation’s ruling class has responded with the same swift, decisive action it applies to every crisis: a meeting. Several meetings. Possibly a meeting about the meetings. Since the unrest began…

Business Governance Social Tourism

Cure for Government-Controlled Buses

Alan Nafzger

London Discovers the Cure for Government-Controlled Buses Is More Government-Controlled Buses Sadiq Khan Creates Public Bus Company After City Hall Concludes Eight Contractors Are Seven Too Many LONDON — Mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled Buses for London, a publicly owned operator expected to begin running Route 6 between Willesden and Victoria in late 2027. About 100 zero-emission buses are initially planned, with four more routes due to follow from 2028 before TfL evaluates whether the experiment…

Business Governance

Hillingdon Council Doubles Shop Rents

Cyndi Himmelstiere

Hillingdon Council Doubles Shop Rents, Unveils Bold Economic Plan to Replace Local Businesses With Empty Windows West Drayton discovers exciting new economic theory in which thriving shops become even more valuable once nobody can afford to operate them WEST DRAYTON, LONDON — Hillingdon Council has unveiled what appears to be Britain’s most advanced high-street regeneration strategy: spend hundreds of thousands of pounds making a shopping parade attractive, raise some rents by more…

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More Government From Belgium

Alan Nafzger

Britain Complains Government Controls Everything, Poll Finds Solution May Be More Government From Belgium Voters Apparently Look at Britain’s Regulation, Taxes and State Intervention and Ask Whether Brussels Has Anything Available in a Larger Size LIVERPOOL, England — Britain has reportedly discovered a revolutionary cure for people who believe the country already suffers from excessive government intervention: additional government intervention, but continental. A new POLITICO/Public First poll found that 70 percent of…

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London Turns Oxford Street Into Pedestrian Plaza, Scientists Predict Traffic Will Disappear Completely Provided Nobody Looks One Street Over

Harriet Collins

London Turns Oxford Street Into Pedestrian Plaza, Scientists Predict Traffic Will Disappear Completely Provided Nobody Looks One Street Over | Researchers confirm congestion can be neither created nor destroyed, only redirected toward someone who did not attend the consultation

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Oxford Street Goes Traffic-Free in October, Christmas Shoppers Thrilled to Discover They Can Now Be Crushed Exclusively by Other Christmas Shoppers

Oeko Angebot

Oxford Street Goes Traffic-Free in October, Christmas Shoppers Thrilled to Discover They Can Now Be Crushed Exclusively by Other Christmas Shoppers | London removes the vehicles so pedestrians can finally inconvenience one another without professional assistance

Governance Political Social

Burnham Promises Difficult Trade-Offs and Unpopular Decisions, Finally Introduces Britain to Government’s Traditional Loyalty Programme: You Pay More, Somebody Else Gets the Points

Junglepussy

Burnham Promises Difficult Trade-Offs and Unpopular Decisions, Finally Introduces Britain to Government’s Traditional Loyalty Programme: You Pay More, Somebody Else Gets the Points | Triple Lock Meets Social Care in the Treasury’s Least Relaxing Episode of Countdown

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Britain Says Government Is Too Big

Morag Sinclair

Britain Says Government Is Too Big, Then Asks Brussels Whether It Comes in Family Size Nation Diagnoses Itself With Bureaucracy, Prescribes Brussels LIVERPOOL, England — Britain has spent years complaining about taxes, public spending, bureaucracy, government interference, expensive energy, struggling public services and the curious national tradition of requiring fourteen signatures before anybody can construct a bicycle shed. Having carefully reviewed these symptoms, much of the country has apparently reached…

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Britain Wants Closer EU Ties

Alan Nafzger

Britain Wants Closer EU Ties, Discovers Brexit Was Apparently Just a Trial Separation New Poll Finds 70% Want Brussels Closer, Although Britain Remains Admirably Unclear About What “Closer” Means Britain has apparently entered the “maybe we should see other people but still share the Costco membership” phase of Brexit. A new POLITICO/Public First poll reports that 70 percent of British adults favor some form of closer relationship with the European Union, a finding guaranteed…

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Britain Hurt the Terrorists’ Feelings

Bethan Morgan

Britain Foils Possible Terror Plot, Immediately Launches Investigation Into Whether Britain Hurt the Terrorists’ Feelings Suspected Bomb Plot Near RAF Base Disrupted, Britain Responds With Traditional Counterterrorism Weapon: National Self-Doubt FAIRFORD, ENGLAND — Britain was confronted this weekend with that rarest of national emergencies: an incident sufficiently suspicious that even the British were briefly prepared to describe it as suspicious. Five British nationals were arrested after police received a report shortly after midnight…