Writer on inequality Danny Dorling explains the meaning of Scroogeonomics and how little has changed since 1843 when Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published. Ella Furness provides the illustrations with singer-songwriter Nia providing a specially commissioned backing track ' Christmas is Here Forever.' The film was produced by Simon Green.
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Brilliant!!
‘Christmas is cancelled for ever’ – a good ol’ Quaker message if every I heard one!
Will e mail this to my CLP new ‘colleagues.’
Cameron – you ain’t no Christian, bruv.
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Since the days of Thatcher, I’ve long harboured a somewhat cynical view of Conservatives cloaking themselves in Christianity. ‘Cameron, you ain’t no Christian bruv’ captures it perfectly.
I have to say that from my perspective the suggestion is spot on
Many Americans make a point of watching James Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” every Christmas which has a very leftish slant on the workings of US society. Lionel Barrymore plays the bad capitalist, but unlike Scrooge, he’s unreformed at the end of the film.
The film’s director Frank Capra was investigated by the un-American activities commission even though his political POV was much more ‘democratic socialist’ than Communist.
Wonderful Life is one of those rare films which is now much more widely watched than just after its release (1946). Maybe because it is more relevant now than it was then?
You can watch it here for free: https://archive.org/details/ItsAWonderfulLife_201401
It’s a great film
Oddly, I think the first I ever saw with my wife – although I am not sure we were actually going out then. I think our mutual reaction was a reason why we did