The Liberal Democrats weaselly attempts to distance themselves from a policy that could only have been enacted with their connivance demonstrates conclusively that this batch of politicians have no honour and should never be trusted with power again. Original clips © BBC / Channel 4 … Continue reading
“Reformism in local government has a Faustian history, often involving shady deals, compromised principles and unexpected outcomes as much as successful attempts to establish social justice in cities. Play your cards right and you can, like Herbert Morrison’s London county … Continue reading
Any time a politician, or any public figure for that matter, tries to discuss the subject of wealth and income inequality they are immediately castigated in the right-wing media as being engaged in “class warfare“. Even president Obama, who had … Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, the core argument used by right-wingers around the world to justify accelerated budget deficit reduction, Reinhart and Rogoff’s “Growth in a Time of Debt”, was fatally undermined by Thomas Herndon, an economics graduate student, when he … Continue reading
It is said that what happens in the US happens in the UK shortly afterwards. This clip of the Daily Show shows US conservatives making the argument that it is ok to attack the incomes and the dignity of the weakest and the poorest … Continue reading
The UK is a great nation. I am not joking. Despite what you may have read in the Daily Mail, by and large, the UK is an advanced, civilised, law-abiding country and it is a wonderful place to be born … Continue reading
Regular readers of this blog will know that Iain Duncan Smith is a notorious liar. There is no point being euphemistic about it because the facts are clear. When confronted about his lies his excuse is that he “believes” that what he … Continue reading
Jeremy Paxman discusses wealth inequality and a global wealth tax with Thomas Piketty author of “Capital In The 21st Century” on Newsnight (30 April 2014). Video © BBC *********************************************** Wealth inequality and other things we don’t have to learn from … Continue reading
It is said that what happens in the US happens in the UK shortly afterwards. This clip of the Daily Show was broadcast in August 2011 and touches on many of the same arguments used by the Conservative Party in the … Continue reading
Today the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, said that Iain Duncan Smith‘s flagship policy, universal credit, was: “an unmitigated disaster of extraordinary proportions in every aspect of the programme so far”. To add insult to injury, today’s Times newspaper … Continue reading
Thatcher’s advertising guru Maurice Saatchi agrees that “capitalism isn’t working”, that Karl Marx may have been right and that the UK energy market is run by a cartel. Whatever next? Related articles If Robert Peston thinks that it’s time to stop … Continue reading
To any sensible person that has bothered to study a little modern world history, socialism in the sense of the Marxist philosophy, was a great idea but not a practical one. In the UK, especially in the 1970’s, we had … Continue reading
Hardly a week passes without another report of incompetent ministers mismanaging major governmental policy implementation. Last time it was IDS’s £300m cock-up at the DWP and this week it’s Jeremy Hunt and £1.2bn of public funds (for the hard of counting … Continue reading
Well it took longer than I expected (fully three years) but it has finally started to happen in earnest. After a few false starts, this government’s fakery and statistical misrepresentations have been unable to cover up the disastrous effects of … Continue reading
It is said that what happens in the US happens in the UK shortly afterwards. This clip of the Daily Show was broadcast in August 2011 and touches on many of the same arguments used by the Conservative Party in the … Continue reading
I Am Incorrigible 