Capitalism Creates Poverty

We live in reactionary times. Times, in which, the political left appears to be unable to respond to the dominance of the political right. C...

The looming recession has r e-ignited the debate about organic food. We are told that people are turning away from organic food because it ...

In response to an earlier comment on my blog, I said I was in the process of writing a paper on how I believe Capitalism creates poverty ra...

Forty years ago it was Mick Jagger, now it is Pete Doherty . The police's move to ban Babyshambles's performance at the Moonfest wou...

Johann Hari has done us all a service in his latest polemic . If you believe in living in a free society his argument is simple and irrefuta...

Great article by Victoria Coren in the Observer last Sunday about the kicking that smokers are getting at the moment. I've often though...

As an avid grazer of the internet blog scene, one of the things that really cheers me up amongst all the angst about climate change, the cre...

According to a report from the New Economics Foundation we have just 100 months to save the planet from climate change. That is 8 1/3 years ...

Heard of the war on drugs? You probably have. But have you heard of the war on trade unions? If not, you should have because its going on al...

New Labour lose in Glasgow East. Well I am going to say I told you so . New labour will not be re-elected. Its not just Gordon - who has to...

David Cameron is wrong - we don't live in a broken society. We have poverty and pockets of great deprivation but the vast majority of pe...

In a week that we heard of accidents at French nuclear plants its time to make it clear that we don't want more nuclear power. How did ...

This blog has followed free market failures which have caused misery to millions. The free market failure known as the 'credit crunch...

Juste retour d'un grand vacances en France. Nous sommes allés à l'île de Ré et la Vallée de la Loire pendant dix jours. Sur l'îl...

If you believe in God, and that God is our creator, you must also accept that God created homosexuals. New research has shown that homosexu...