Occupy Toronto
By Juliette Daigre & Tom Malleson Occupy Toronto began on Saturday 15 October, with a 2,000 person march (a pretty impressive size for Canada) through the financial district before setting up camp in a downtown park. For weeks we’d been following with interest the news coming out of Occupy Wall Street: from the initial Adbusters [...]
F-off Heff: on Playboy, sex, psychosocial stress and the jilted generation
I like sex. OK, that’s a pretty banal statement. Most people do. So, let me put it another way. I have no problem with people having sex as much as they want to, with as many other people as they want to. I’m happy for consenting adults to do together whatever they please. And, it’s [...]
Time for a living wage
Matthew works for responsible investment campaigning group Fairpensions The Sunday Times Rich List is strangely addictive. The longer you look at it the more active your imagination becomes. What would I buy with Lakshmi Mittals billions? How many penny sweets would the Duke of Westminster’s seven thousand million pounds buy? It’s almost impossible for any [...]
Where did all the money go?
Reports hit the headlines this week of a London flat going for a record £138m. 3 years after the credit crunch, and the mega rich are richer than ever. 3 years after the credit crunch, and those who caused it are seeing their wealth boom. Over the last couple of decades, we have got used [...]
How the left won the argument on inequality… and where it got us…
People’s politics are very often located very deep in their psychological makeup. I am someone who finds it very hard to see the worst in human character. I am therefore a progressive – my politics seeks to make a better world by harnessing human goodness. Other find it hard to see the best in human [...]
Green Party of England and Wales Conference Day 1: Science and Inequality
So, first day of conference, not always a lot to report from Thursday, it’s a half day and much of the time is the standing orders committee report but there were a couple of interesting points yesterday. First of all, science. This is one area where, as has been well pointed out, a lot of [...]