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Sun, 13 Dec 2020 08:39 UTC © Hiep Le DucIn the morning, the world is as the world should be. The sun rises, as predicted for this part of England in early December, at around twenty past eight. Shortly after this, I get up, go through the usual morning routines, have a quick breakfast, wash up, and am at my computer by ten o'clock. The hours pass unexceptionably until lunchtime. And then I can no longer put off the trip to the shops. Going to the shops is something I do as little as possible nowadays. Once I might have walked in and out of the nearby town centre several times in a day, witho...

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In August volunteers unload a van of food donations to a local food bank in the town of Penicuik, in Midlothian, Scotland. iStock In 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May, faced with demands to increase nurses’ stagnant wages, famously denied the existence of any “magic money tree.” Ms. May’s Conservative Party predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, had asserted that the U.K. government had no money of its own; only what it raised from the populace by taxation or borrowing. Most people probably thought this orthodoxy prudent. A budget deficit was a sign of bad governance, strenuously t...

Universal Basic Income is a regular payment without strings attached, unlike many Social Security schemes. The original call for UBI has been around for

Published December 11, 2020 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. A majority of Australians support the introduction of universal basic income, according to a new study by the Green Insitute and YouGov, so… can we make it a thing already? After the absolutely hellish year we’ve had, its hard to see why anyone would be opposed to the system, which would see all Austr...