Comments on: Going up to the Wire….

By: Me and my big mouth : Matthew Taylor’s blog

Me and my big mouth : Matthew Taylor’s blog — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:28:13 +0000

[...] this appears to be based on a couple of paragraphs in a post I wrote last August (the rest of which was about whether it was wise for Chris Grayling to compare crime and policing [...]

By: matthewtaylor

matthewtaylor — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:49:13 +0000

Thanks Tim. You will no doubt be amused by the ‘quote from the Mayor of Baltimore’ on Jonathan Carr West’s site which then turns out to be a spoof quote by Alex Hilton (see comments above)

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:52:35 +0000

Whoops, the workshy get stick and don’t vote, the obese escape relatively free and are more likely to vote.

By: Baltimore bites back « LGiU – the local democracy blog

Baltimore bites back « LGiU – the local democracy blog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:46:28 +0000

[...] Baltimore bites back Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Carr-West All week I’ve been planning to do a post on Chris Grayling’s comparison of English inner cities to The Wire. The politics of this have been very well covered and I’ve particularly enjoyed contributions from Misha Glenny and my old boss Matthew Taylor. [...]

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:29:46 +0000

I seem to recall that unemployment under Harold Wilson’s Government in the ’60s went down to 500,000, which just about represented the turnover of people moving from one job to another, perhaps unsuited to their previous post.

There were still a relatively tiny number of people effectively unemployable.

Training was coming to be touted as the way ahead, the “White heat of the technological revolution” etc.

The biggest current problem is obesity, and associated diabetes, rather than repeated generations of the workshy, who, truth to tell are less likely to vote than the obese, and so get less stick from politicians.