Posted in Economy, Labour, Political, UK politics, tagged Alistair Darling, Budget 2008 on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in China, Civil Liberties, Economy, Events, Free Market, Freedom of Speech, Government, Human Rights, Political, UK politics, democracy, rant, tagged Beijing Olympics on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Economy, Free Market, Marxism, Social on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Economy, tagged Recession on December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail on August 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Anarchism, Economy, Government, Libertarianism, Marxism, Minarchism, Political, Socialism, Society, Utopia on July 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in British Rail, Economy, Education, Free Market, Government, Industry, NHS, Police, Privatisation, Public Services, Renationalisation, Royal Mail, Social, Socialism, Society, UK politics, Utopia, democracy on July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Capitilism, Economy, Free Market, Government, Industry, Socialism, Society on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Economy, Events, Government, Human Rights, Political, Terrorism, War, democracy on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Such is the description of Primeminister Gordon Brown by a prominent political ally when questioned by Times Journalist Tim Hames and it would seem from the PM’s response the the failed terror attacks of the past few days that Mr Brown is indeed maintaining such a facade.
It is to his credit that he is urging [...]
