Yeah it would need to be rolled out beyond any single nation state - unfortunately that’s never going to happen. It’s the whole global system that’s rotten and is driving us towards a crisis in the legitimacy of democracy.
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No-one wants to move first, so nobody moves. Our government are such pussies when it comes to this. We could be global leaders, but we’re letting even our soft power slip away because the Tories don’t care about anything but the Daily Mail.
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In my teens, our family holidayed annually at a small resort in Coffs Harbour on the NSW coast. One day I was swimming in the modest pool near our villa and bumped into a guy whilst swimming underwater with my eyes closed. Poppped my head up to apologise to John Denver.
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Read somewhere a few years ago (think it was a piece by the IFS), that 43% of working age adults in the UK don’t pay income tax. Think the whole language around taxation needs fundamentally looking at, too many people regarding paying tax as akin to some sort of fine ( pretty much all media and politicians now routinely call it a “burden”) and nothing linking it to what you get for your money. A German bloke I knew who lived near Frankfurt was bewildered by Brits thinking of tax as a punishment, he was paying much more than I was (even though he was on a similar salary to me) but pointed out the “cleanliness and order in his small town, efficiency of his local government, how good the schools are, the reliability of his local transport and infrastructure and the quality of the local leisure facilities. “Why would I not want to pay for this?” was his comment” My sister in law lives in Florida and, while they pay no income tax in that state, the public education system, social welfare and general infrastructure is terrible. Fear that is where we are heading in this country.
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The irony is that the tax burden in the UK is the highest it has been in our lifetime, while our public services get worse.
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The myth of private good, public bad, still has a big hold on our politicians, despite the evidence of the last 40 years. The fact that soundbites like “sound finance” are still used to back up an economic model that has utterly failed (for most) is fucking depressing.
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2003 and I’m at Heathrow in the queue to check in for a flight to Tokyo, in front of me in the queue are a couple of cool looking guys.
A week or two latter i’m in a Tokyo nightclub (Club Air), I think it was Madlib and Egon headlining (or maybe Giles Peterson) anyways who is on the decks before the headliners, the two guys I saw in the airport queue!
A look at the line-up and I see they are Two Banks Of Four, who I had never heard of but have since enjoyed their Three Street Worlds album.
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Airport spots – saw Nicky Siano once. And one time my son went off and sat on his own, next to Paul Morley of the Art of Noise etc.
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I was behind Honey Dijon in the queue at UK Border, returning from a holiday last year. Didn’t speak to her so unfortunately that’s where this story ends. One for the very, very small claims court I’m afraid.
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Was once sat near Jungle OG DJ Hype in a departure lounge back in the late 90s.
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Giles used to play them a lot on his Worldwide show on Radio 1 2000-ish.
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Got a plane with him to Stockholm when we were both DJing in different rooms at the same party. His real name is Kevin. Nice bloke as I recall.
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I never got the chance to talk to him, he was with an attractive, exotic looking lady from what I remember.
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Ashley Beedle in duty free at Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados.
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I saw skateboarder Geoff Rowley in Schiphol airport wearing converse all stars when he was sponsored by Vans… 
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Goldie at Gatwick on Monday, sat next to Jude Law and daughter at lunch at Lyles last Saturday. So far pretty star-studded hols…
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Cornish life!
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Was sweating out a hangover by a hotel’s rooftop pool in Barcelona in the mid-00’s. Chris Quentin aka Brian Tilsley walked up and lay face down on the next sunbed.
He was wearing a tiny white thong and fuck all else…
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We have a winner - Stop the thread
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