Falling under the spell

You may have noticed a distinct lack of posts in recent times, well you’d be right and top marks for observation, of course after the masses of disappointed letters I received in the posts from all those fans who simply couldn’t bear the thought of not having my paper thin personality forced upon them in [...]

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Back to basics, Minimum wage

Let’s get back on track, I have not had a good argument in too long, it has been nothing but the rather pointless philosophical point scoring of a class full of people that get confused between the search for truth and meaningless arguments in which the only objective is to win, no matter how wrong [...]

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The return of Mr Popular

It’s everybodies favourite Chancellor again. Alistair Darling today resisted calls for a U-turn on his abolishment of the 10p tax bracket. Denying that he has managed to increase the tax burden for 5.4 million people he nonetheless succeeded in tangling himself up in knots in his interview for BBC News, Dichotomously arguing that he wants to [...]

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Heartening, the resolve of the many and the power of the few

I wanted to write a post about the protests that have taken place around the world as the olympic torch has been carried from nation to nation in a badly judged public relations exercise by the Chinese Administration.
When I got plane to return to the UK I saw the scenes that greeted the Olympic relay [...]

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Polarisation, a time honoured tale.

According to a recent report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an organisation committed to tackling social issues in a constructive manner, the wealth gap between rich and poor is at it’s highest level in 40 years.
Amongst the findings are the widespread acceptance of the fact that some occupations should be paid at a higher rate [...]

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A Recession…at last

The papers were full of the doom mongering calls of the city which has decided that Britain faces economic recession and all I could do was shrug my shoulders and wonder if it’ll mean less fucking advertising and maybe even an end to the materialism that has spread itself so rampantly through the college.
I can [...]

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Royal Mail, a lesson in Byzantine politics

As me and my fellow rats are blowing up our waterwings and viewing the horizon for a passing ship the lumbering liner that is Royal Mail steaming full speed ahead begins to dig itself into its watery grave.
A slightly rhetorical description but not so far from the truth.
The situation is getting increasingly nasty and true [...]

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The Nightwatchman state

In my attempts to reconcile my slightly Anarchic desires with the idea of state socialism I have come across an interesting and little discussed concept decribed in the title of this post.
The idea of Minarchism is one based around a form of deontological arguments which determine that a state should be restricted to minimal powers, [...]

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Renationalisation and Elected Chiefs.

I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation.
I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising them.
To [...]

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State capitilism

The examples of the USSR, China and Cuba have been widely upheld as the failure of Socialism and all its precepts, as a result most modern ’socialist’ parties have abandoned their plans for social reform and taken a more Laissez-Faire attitude toward managing Capitalist society as best they can, without ever seriously challenging the status [...]

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