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
UK Policy
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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Don’t allow the drift towards police privatisation
The move towards a single police force for Scotland will only make it easier for private cartels to try and start breaking up a public police force so police services can be hived-off for profit
A retail-led recovery? Get back to school. Primary school.
The gnashing of teeth over the failure of a retail-led economic recovery is the sound of the old order paralysed in a theoretical world where nothing works any more. Why is anyone still listening?
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Read this – so you know why the competitiveness stuff is wrong
It won’t take you long to skim this article but after you do you will be in a much better position to argue against George Osborne and the cut-business-tax-and-deregulate gang
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A blood-soaked knife, gently wrapped in a fairytale
Rather than reinforcing the same-old lies from the military and the state, now would be a good time for the British media to demonstrate some of the freedom over which it has been shedding crocodile tears at the Levenson Inquiry
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