Capitalism Creates Poverty

Some years ago when I was a student at 'red' Essex University I went to a lecture by a member of the Maoist Shining Path (Sendero L...

Gordon's at it again - bashing the poor.......... Here are the headlines from the 8th April on the BBC :- "Ministers are coming u...

Are you, like me, one of many people in the UK who would like to generate electricity in your own home ? We now have the technology to gener...

There has been a certain amount of hand wringing recently in the commons and the political press about Gordon Brown. We are told that Gordon...

We are living in a post-democratic society. Of course we still have elections, in the same way that we have had for a century or so. But the...

I was interested to read an article - 'We are made for more' - by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor in today's Guardian . It ...

The effects of globalisation have largely benefited businesses at the expense of workers. For example, many businesses have sought to re-lo...

The 'war on drugs' has failed. Billions of pounds have been spent here and abroad to try to stem the flow and consumption of drugs, ...

The British media keep very quiet about industrial action - unless it happens abroad. You only usually read about strikes over here if it ca...

A shocking thing happened in the UK recently - a bank - Northern Rock - was nationalised! It wasn't the fact that the bank should have g...

There are christians, mainly in the USA, but also over here, who believe in something called 'intelligent design' (ID). They say tha...

Just to show that this blog isn't all work and no play I want to share a great day out with you. I grew up in Manchester in the sixties ...

Rowan Williams did us all a favour by starting a debate about the application of sharia law in the the UK. After all, shouldn't muslims ...

Have you heard the one about how you get screwed by capitalism? Well it goes like this. A load of greed-merchants in America* are allowed to...

While I was doing a little research on fascism recently I began to think about what fascism, and particularly British fascism might look lik...