Capitalism Creates Poverty

T his week we discovered that Rupert Murdoch and his son James knew nothing about the criminal activities that took place in News Internati...

Perhaps I should have entitled this post the 'comedy of errors'? The problem with that title that I have, is that the current crisis...

I just had to do a post on this. I have been wondering how long it would be before someone from the right in the USA started to bang on abou...

"Its the economy stupid!" - it sure is. The economy is just about all we hear about these days, and its no wonder, because w e ar...

The Eurozone debacle continues. Now Italy, the third largest economy in the Eurozone, is having to pay much more to finance its debt. Yield...

I blogged a while ago about our sham democracy, the cosy carve up which means that whoever gets elected, the policies pursued by government...

A lot of people are wondering what the Labour Party is for. Since Ed Milliband became leader its been hard to to tell. But at least we know ...

On Thursday June 30th striking public sector workers and their supporters came together for a rally at the Town Hall in Chester. We had a  t...

One of the things that I find utterly baffling and amusing, in a very darkly comic way, is the BBC's analysis of 'our' economy. ...

I grew up in Britain in the 1960s. A that time, people used to talk about the ruling class . Nobody thought there was anything odd about tha...

Support the strike action by public sector workers on June 30th! You can visit this website to find out more about the actions planned next...

I came across this post by Mark Hudson yesterday on a blog called Naked Capitalism. It's an excellent description of how the failures o...

One of the golden rules about writing a political blogs like this is that if you want to be taken seriously you should write well argued pos...

This is an excellent video, well worth watching. At just over two minutes long, it sums up how Western capitalism exploits the rest of t...

Buttermere in the English Lake District Interesting news last week - to the sound of a fanfare the Coalition government proudly announced...