Saturday, 7 December 2013

Welcome to the Coalition school of hard knocks

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Its hard to believe how things have changed since I was a student. I had my fees paid and a received a maintenance grant, which I just about...
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Sunday, 3 November 2013

There is a simple green route to lower energy bills

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As winter approaches more and more people are beginning to worry about paying energy bills, the recent row about the 'big six' ene...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

Capitalism depends upon coercion and violence

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The media commonly portrays the 'enemies' of capitalism as violent and destructive. This applies to those who protest, even non-viol...
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Sunday, 13 October 2013

Unemployment: Labour and the Tories compete to blame and persecute the victims

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Are you unemployed? If you are you are in a pretty tough situation. There clearly aren't enough jobs to go round, and many of the jobs t...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

The Tories have shown us that for them - its class war as usual

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The greenest government ever; cuddling a Husky at the North Pole; and hug a hoodie ? This is what we got from Cameron before the 2010 genera...
Sunday, 8 September 2013

Ed Milliband is playing a dangerous game with the trade union link

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One of the reasons the Tories find it so easy to kick Ed Milliband is that  he wanders around with a "please kick me" sign pinned ...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

Cameron's Syria debacle and the growing influence of social media

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It was Harold Wilson who said "A week is a long time in politics", and its surely been a very long week indeed for David Cameron. ...
Sunday, 11 August 2013

Britain's democracy is broken, is it beyond repair?

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David Cameron came into office in 2010 banging on about 'broken Britain' , since then he and Chancellor George Osborne seem to have ...
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Monday, 22 July 2013

The Green Party must be a radical party if it is to make real electoral progress

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I started this post with an Internet search for the meaning of the word 'radical'. One of the first definitions I found was this: a ...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The strange slow death of the Labour Party

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Do all political parties have a lifespan? I think so. Its hard to imagine the Tory Party coming to an end, because it represents the intere...
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Monday, 27 May 2013

The global kleptocracy: 'free trade' and corporate economic imperialism

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Whilst arguments rage in the UK about the aftermath of the horrific and senseless murder of a soldier in Woolwich, around the world corporat...
Friday, 24 May 2013

What is work and what is it really for?

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What is work, what is it for, and what is it going to look like in the future? Do we need to work and how much work should we do? T...
Thursday, 16 May 2013

If you get a Labour government in 2015 you will probably be sorely disappointed

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Remember Neoliberal Labour? The bad old New Labour of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown? Well, if you are planning to vote Labour in 2015, and you...
Saturday, 11 May 2013

"Democracy itself is at stake"

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A while ago I wrote a post about the UK's sham democracy . My argument was that our democratic system is there to make us believe we can...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

Real change is possible if you vote for the Green Party, and now is the time to start

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Would you like to see the return of British Rail and the end of rip - off rail fares? How about an end to tuition fees so that young people ...