Claiming to understand ‘the Big Society’ and casually suggesting that we can’t afford universal social provision are quite the fashion. It is time for people to wake up and understand how the project to dismantle society really works.
Read More »Big Society fund – an abyss we would do well to avoid
The lazy analysis that has concluded the Bradford result ‘was about the immigrants’ is exactly the kind of patronising attitude that led to the result in the first place.
The obsession of ‘freedom of speech’ is in part a smokescreen to disguise our lack of ‘freedom to hear’. This crackdown on web freedom is simply another step towards a world where we can say what we want but only ever hear what we’re given.
Read More »It’s not really free speech that matters – hence the web crackdown
Forget what Ed Milliband says – he will learn nothing from Bradford. But then, neither will anyone else – unless we reform the relationship between money and politics
Read More »No-one will learn anything – unless we stop Big Money
More than £45bn of fraud was perpetrated last year, mainly by senior business managers. That we will do nothing about this is predictable; that we don’t even seem interested in talking about it is surely an accommodation too far.
Read More »How forgiving we are of crime – when it’s business leaders
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.
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
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.
Read More »Scavenger strategy won’t change Britain or Scotland
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.
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.