Why is Labour wrapping itself up in the Union flag?
Sunday, March 31st, 2024I did another Twitter poll yesterday, because the Guardian highlighted concerns that members of the Labour Party have expressed about campaign materials produced by its
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Why is Labour backing what its likely supporters think to be the worst possible option for water?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024I put this poll on Twitter yesterday: Let me say straight away, and before anyone else does, that I anm aware that such polls are
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Just suppose we tried to meet needs? What might happen?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024A new commentator on this blog named Tony Wikrent made an interesting comment yesterday, saying, when discussing the purpose of economics: ”Many subscribe to Lionel
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Why does Labour prefer long years of opposition to almost perpetual government?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024I had a discussion with Neal Lawson of Compass, and others, this week on the subject of proportional representation. Many of the usual arguments were
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Gordon Brown's answer to poverty in the UK is to appeal to charity. When Labour looks like it will have a massive majority soon that is pathetic.
Friday, March 29th, 2024Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, had an article in the Guardian newspaper yesterday that plumbed new depths for the Labour Party. Brown acknowledged
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It's not just Thames Water: the whole of the English water industry is environmentally insolvent
Friday, March 29th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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It is essential that the state regulate the private sector if we are to avoid fascism. It looks as if both Labour and the Tories have abandoned this goal.
Friday, March 29th, 2024In April 1938, President Franklin D Roosevelt sent a message to Congress in which he said: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths
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Will Thames Water finally force Labour to address the nationalisation issue?
Thursday, March 28th, 2024As The Telegraph notes in an email this morning: Thames Water took a further step towards nationalisation after shareholders said they would not provide it
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Jeremy Hunt's desperate appeal for money
Thursday, March 28th, 2024This is from what seems to be a genuine JustGiving appeals page: Yes, that is Jeremy Hunt, our Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rather than provide
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