Capitalism Creates Poverty

Well, it had to happen. New Labour's mission to take us back to the nineteenth century is nearing completion with the latest welfare ref...

Have you noticed how Gordon Brown and other world leaders have been banging on recently about the dangers of protectionism ? Apparently, pro...

Bankers certainly know how to pay themselves even if they don't know how to run banks. And once again we are being told to lay off the b...

If you hadn't I wouldn't be surprised. You see our great 'free' media has pretty much ignored it completely. There was an in...

As the whole of our economic system teeters on the edge of meltdown, it's worth just taking stock of how we got here. Capitalism is an e...

I don't believe that the US is better than the UK. For a start we don't have 45 million poor people without access to healthcare. Bu...

Those of us who are socialists are pretty relaxed about the collapse of Capitalism. After all Capitalism is just a scheme for making a few p...

George Monbiot said it - the third Heathrow runway is New Labour's final betrayal. But it is one of many betrayals of party members, th...

The question a a lot of people are asking is - 'When are people going to be held to account for the trashing of our economy?' That i...

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...