Capitalism Creates Poverty

This post was inspired by George Orwell's Newspeak . According to Wikipedia: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's n...

Plenary session at Sheffield Hallam University My report of the Green Party Conference has been delayed by work, but my head is still fu...

In a recent Guardian article environmentalist author Mark Lynas suggested that the green movement had lost its way. He had apparently exper...

Since last week, when the UK riots came to a halt, apart from the universal condemnation of the looters, there have been two responses: one ...

After four nights of looting and violence like many other people in our society I'm angry. Very angry. My anger is directed at the peopl...

If, like me, you are middle aged, you will have seen many riots in the UK. Brixton, Broadwater Farm, and Toxteth are some of the the better...

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. ...