Capitalism Creates Poverty

If the Israeli attack on Gaza was one thing it was predictable. The Israelis have always used violence and terror to achieve their aims and ...

I've had occasion to blog about Joseph Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI before, when I was discussing his absurd claims that the inciden...

In June I posted about how children get a raw deal in the UK. But how about young adults? When I was eighteen, in the mid seventies, I expec...

We are living on the edge of a precipice. The most recent scientific evidence points towards a potentially catastrophic swing in climate, ...

The government has announced new plans for benefits claimants which may mean cuts in benefits and people being forced into unsuitable low p...

One of the great scandals of the past quarter century in the UK has been the way pensions have been handled and pensioners treated. Pensions...

It comes to something when its easier to go on strike in China than it is in good old Blighty. A post on CiF by Zhang Hong about a taxi dri...

I was going to call this post 'Money is bullshit' but decided against it because of my recent post called 'Hierarchy is bullshit...

There has been so much wall to wall coverage of Barak Obama's sensational election victory that I wasn't going to mention it in my...

Now we see what the Scottish Nationalist Party are really made of. The news that the SNP government had given the go ahead to Donald Trump ...

Ever thought about why we need bosses? I have, and I've never been able to understand why we need them. What are bosses for other than t...

One of the more amazing features of the financial crisis is the fact that bank executives and staff still see their inflated salaries and bo...

Are you overweight? Could do with losing a few pounds? I am. I suffer from the dreaded middle age spread - which has accelerated since I sto...

As we slide into a recession, one or two commentators such as George Monbiot have been doing us a service by reminding us that the credit c...

So. One of the great architects of free-market failure, Gordon Brown, is now claiming to have found the solution. The £500 billion bail out ...