This is rather a good video from Momentum. It is in the same vein as Simon Wren-Lewis’s suggestion that Conservative budgetary aims are based on deceit not ignorance: Sam has got just one question – and if anyone can answer it, he'll vote for the @Conservatives for the rest of his life. pic.twitter.com/FJLXqQtNq8 —… Read more
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Neoliberalism
TheFullBrexit.Com
Am I really offering a link to a Brexit site? Yes, I fear, I really am! And just because, whilst I do think they have the best of intentions, they are not correct. They suggest – and this is probably true – that the collapse of UKIP shows that people are prepared to accept the… Read more
A dream address
So who should rightfully have their head office in this ‘cul de sac’ about a mile from the centre of Leeds? I can think of numerous candidates but far be it from me…… Read more
Neoliberalism is driving us nuts
– if we live to realise it at all. Interesting short article in (remarkably) the ‘Telegraph’ from the Health Foundation think tank. People, since 2010 (I wonder what happened then?) have been – and, as far as I can see, this is unique in Europe – been living less long, and so too, are current… Read more
Canada & Modern Money
I came accross this interesting, historical chart indicating how Canada’s debt and interest has boomed since it stopped getting its Central Bank to issue money. I believe the change was much influenced by US political pressure but it does prove, as I am sure that our Canadian Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney is well… Read more
Why a Universal Basic Income might shore up Neoliberalism
I occasionally read what the ex New York Times journalist, Chris Hedges, writes as it is always well written and usually hard hitting. This piece is no exception and I was drawn to it because he is railing against the idea of a Universal Basic Income – something which, although I’d prefer it were called… Read more
The only bit of Neoliberalism that isn’t Fascism is the ‘Neo’ bit
It really does seem that the only remaining difference between Neoliberalism and Fascism is a slightly more liberal social policy outlook – although even that might be debatable in some cases. I now discover that whereas Hitler started the privatisation lark, his Fascist colleague, Benito Mussolini, started the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Admittedly, it wasn’t… Read more
The real origin of privatisation
At the risk of proving Godwin’s law to be irrefutable I confess that this extract from James Meek’s ‘Private Island’ brought me up short. Certainly, the American academic, Sidney Merlin, summarised the true effects of privatisation as ones we’ve come to properly understand only almost eighty years later. And when, as it sometimes does, it… Read more
Président Macron’s government to sell Paris’s airports
I was most impressed with a journalist’s summation on France 2 of the proposal by Président Macron’s government to sell Paris’s airports. They are currently owned by just a shade more than 50% by the state.. The Prime Minister has said it is not part of the government’s purpose to extract dividends from infrastructure. Though… Read more
The REAL argument for Universal Basic Services
As a postscript to the previous piece on Universal Basic Income, (together with the interesting comment from Charles Adams on the same page) an American article makes a coherent case against a full Universal Basic Income: Our current economic crisis goes beyond the problem of income inequality. While inequality garners the most attention, it’s a… Read more