Economics
Share buy backs and the failure of ‘Schrödinger’s capitalism’
Posted on November 23, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 5 Comments
The New York Times reported yesterday the return of corporate share buy-backs in the USA. When I tweeted the link to the story, someone replied with perhaps the best analogy I could come up with: this is like burning the house to keep warm. Which it is. A share buy back essentially means this: the [...]
You, too, will come to love this Gideon
Posted on November 22, 2011 by Gary Dunion | No Comments
With The Real George Osborne, World Development Movement have acheived the impossible: campaigning comedy that is actually funny.
Which Side Are You On
Posted on November 16, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 15 Comments
In two weeks time the UK will see the biggest coordinated day of strike action in decades; as many as 26 different unions representing everyone from chiropodists to teachers to tax inspectors may be out on strike in reaction to the government’s plans to slash public sector pensions. Even the headteachers union (the NAHT) will [...]
A Despatch from OccupyLSX
Posted on November 13, 2011 by Jonathan Kent | No Comments
I’ve wanted to drop in on the OccupyLSX camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral ever since it was set up and on Tuesday I finally got there. I wandered down with Rupert Read who’d persuaded me to join him at a Progressive Alliance meeting that morning at TUC headquarters. The Occupy camp had been high on [...]
Occupy LSX, Monopoly and Mindless Materialism
Posted on November 13, 2011 by Jonathan Kent | No Comments
Growing up, did you ever play Monopoly or Risk? Did you ever get to a point where you simply picked up the board, chucked the pieces in the air and told everyone ‘this is a stupid game’? I did and I feel I’ve reached the same point now with the much bigger game that we’ve [...]
Tescopoly: A Green’s Praise for Sammy Wilson
Posted on November 7, 2011 by Adam McGibbon | No Comments
It’s rare that I’ll have anything very nice to say about the DUP’s Sammy Wilson, our current Northern Ireland Finance Minister. Despite a friend telling me when we were both students that Sammy always dined in the restaurant he worked in and was a gentleman, I don’t think really we’d get on. It’s the Clarkson-esque [...]
Jilted Generation?
Posted on November 1, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 3 Comments
Niall Ferguson has written for The Daily Beast declaring that young people should blame not Wall Street, but Baby Boomers. It is an argument that has long been made by the likes of David Willets. And some people on the left – most recently the excellent Laurie Penny – have taken these opportunities to argue [...]
Plan B vs. Plan C
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Admin | 21 Comments
Or Why I didn’t be attending the launch-Conference for Compass’s ‘Plan B’ event, this weekend. By Rupert Read I got an invite from Gavin Hayes and Neal Lawson to attend the launch-Conference this Saturday for Compass’s ‘Plan B’. Now, I’m a big fan of Compass. It has been for some time the only real sign [...]
Plan B
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Admin | 4 Comments
By Victor Anderson Difficulties with the Coalition Government’s economic policies are becoming more and more obvious. Public spending cuts spread to the private sector too, as the public sector buys less from private suppliers, and there are also less public sector employees buying goods from the private sector. Thatcher’s famous “household analogy” breaks down – [...]
Why radicals should engage with Occupy London, not dismiss it
Posted on October 19, 2011 by Murray Worthy | 6 Comments
Over the last few days, there seems to be a growing trend from some people on the more radical left to knock Occupy London, dismissing or demeaning its demands and its politics. At the more light hearted end of the spectrum were the #occupylsxdemands jokes, a gentle jibe at the occupations apparent lack of radical [...]
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