As the Middle East strives for freedom we move to rule by an elite
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Isn’t it odd? The Middle East is seeing mass uprisings to demand work, democracy, accountability, the end of elites, the prevention of economic abuse by
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Enclosing the public sector for private gain - and destroying democratic choice on the way
Monday, February 21st, 2011I wrote a blog on the above theme last July. In it I argued that: Private enterprise has no clue how to generate wealth right
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It's time to think
Thursday, February 17th, 2011I am pleased the government has retreated on the sale of forests. I note with interest the comment made by a Downing Street adviser that:
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That's the way to do it - bank protests Spanish style
Friday, February 11th, 2011A few months ago, the Spanish anti-capitalist activist group flo6x8.com slipped into one of the offices of Banco Santander in Seville. Activists planted seven ‘transistors’
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Need is not a percentage of GDP - and Labour has to say so
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Martin Wolf has one of his regular, and insightful, comment columns in the Financial Times this morning. It is entitled “Britain’s experiment in austerity”. If
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There's a use for the excess cash pile of major corporations - tax it
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011The FT reports: US companies have announced share buy-backs at the fastest pace since the fall of Lehman Brothers as companies search for ways to
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Private hospitals howl in protest that they may not be able to cherry pick the NHS
Monday, February 7th, 2011The NHS privatisation, now going on, introduces the concept of ‘any willing provider’ being able to bid for NHS work and get it, irrespective of
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Dear patient – the letter every GP should be sending
Monday, February 7th, 2011I have been talking to GPs — lots of GPs — who are terrified of the upcoming NHS reforms. Almost to a person they know
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GPs are saying no
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011I watched some of the debate on the The Health and Social Care Bill in parliament last evebing. I was shocked (yes, honestly – I
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