Why Britain won’t solve the riots
A Commission casts Britain in its own images, blaming the poor for poverty and largely excusing the corporations for causing it. And they wonder why people are angry.
Morag Findlay
Can you reform a lump of congealed money?
The Tory fundraising scandal depresses more in the knowledge that it is systemic and endemic and will not be changed than in any sense of surprise
Not waving, not even drowning, just bobbing up and down
The Scottish Tory Party Conference is not a sight of Tories in Crisis and it is certainly not a vision of Tory Revival. It is simply a static and fairly marginal strand of Scottish politics.
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Scavenger strategy won’t change Britain or Scotland
For the SNP and Labour to respond to the unpopular bits of the Budget without convincing us this is part of a realistic programme for the transformation of society is simply failure hiding in a sheen of victory.
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Do you feel stupid? Just wait for this budget.
We await with baited breath a budget we are not suppose to understand by people who don’t want us to know what they’re doing and their pals who don’t want to get caught doing it.
Devolve the Crown Estates, but do it properly
Trying to devolve powers over the head of those below is wrong, but so is hollowing out the only layer of government at the local level what would be worth devolving powers to.
Media memory-hole leaves us all suffering
If the the UK media is incapable of reporting today’s news in the light of what we learned yesterday, democracy is in trouble
Spanish children may have best economic recovery plan so far
A survey of children in Spain suggests that they may be best placed to implement a proper social policy response to the economic crisis.
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Forget the dead Afghan children, empathise with their killer
Once again the western media has simply told the story the US Army wants told, about a lone gunman with personal problems who has nothing to do with the army, its methods or foreign policy.
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Does anyone believe in democracy anymore?
Despite our purported love for democracy, the university debate shows that ‘senior people’ consider the idea of democracy to be all threat and no opportunity