If politics is always about resolving the conflicts within and between groups in society so that they can co-exist, even if one is favoured over
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Little boxes
Suggested by Milke Parr, and so appropriate as a description of the goal of social neoliberalism: Little boxes on the hillsideLittle boxes made of ticky-tackyLittle
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Of course people are in anguish. Our politicians do not care about them
Channel 4 has an article out today on its feature on current political opinion in Grimsby – which it has chosen without very good representative
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Government by evil
As the New York Times has noted: Trump administration lawyers have determined that an 18th-century wartime law the president has invoked to deport suspected members
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Does the UK government have a debt problem right now? No, except for the self-imposed one created by the Bank of England
Public sector finance figures are out today from the Office for National Statistics. They are relevant simply because Rachel Reeves is planning to impose massive
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Medicine is under-politicised in the UK
UK ministers are claiming ill health is over-medicalised in the UK. It isn’t. It’s under-politicised instead. It’s neoliberalism that is making us ill, but they
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Do you know someone with a spare million wanting to change politics?
I am asking for a friend. I had an article in The National yesterday that was headlined: I had this note in response from a
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The Bank of England is harming the country and there isn’t a single politician asking why it’s allowed to do that
The Bank of England has left base rates at 4.5% today. Whilst I maintain my view the interest rates in the UK are far too
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Torsten Bell displaying his true neoliberal colours
This comes from Newsnight on Tuesday night. Victoria Derbyshire, who is one of the best interviewers the BBC now has, was interviewing Torsten Bell, the
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