In my earlier piece on ‘What is the economy for?’ I should really have mentioned the economist Steve Keen’s idea of what the economy is for, which is “to provide for all the population”. This very succinct summary certainly conveys clearly the idea that it is not to provide for any one group in particular…. Read more
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Rethinking economics? What is the economy for?
As much interest has been provoked by the recent effort to make economics less of a belief system and more of a servant to society I thought it worth revisiting a post from much earlier in the year to help us fathom rethinking this thing called economics. It is said there is no such thing… Read more
Austerity, not populism, is the problem
Mark Blyth has an interesting take on ‘populism’ about which we hear so much negative comment. He argues that populism is simply paying attention to what people want. There is nothing wrong with it per se – indeed he argues that Jeremy Corbyn is a populist because he offers what people want. He considers that… Read more
An accomplished party leader unworthy of the office of Prime Minister
TRUK alerted us to a graphic image tweeted by the Guardian’s Brussels correspondent. It has since been modified to explain even more simply where Brexit leaves us – and that is – precisely where we started: I’d suggest that the Prime Minister’s strategy is simple. It has nothing directly to do with the EU. By… Read more
Are Brexit Opinion Polls finally turning Towards Remain?
Given the industrial scale dishonesty of the Leave campaign and the EU negotiation, which has been sign on the dotted line for slow learners, it’s bewildering that the polls have remained so sticky; about 50% Leave and 50% remain. The recent BMG poll, which was one of the few organisations to to get the Leave… Read more
The system is now working a little more as it is supposed to…
The Daily Mail obviously thinks we are a one party state and the government should dictate without let or hindrance. Yesterday’s vote was just an expression of what I think was once called the Parliamentary system – where government proposes and Parliament disposes. The government is only the executive. They have not been humiliated –… Read more
The EU – what should Labour do now?
Apparently there is to be no hard border but the UK is leaving the customs union. These contradictions are part of the recent agreement on Article 50. If the latest Times report is correct EU officials and diplomats were irritated by Mr Davis’s remark at the weekend that the withdrawal agreement was just a “statement… Read more
The road to ‘Cash Not Care’ ~ a personal voyage of research discovery. A guest blog by Mo Stewart
Mo Stewart is a medically retired healthcare professional, a disabled veteran of the Women’s Royal Air Force and, since 2009, has worked as an independent disability studies researcher exposing the influence of corporate America since 1992 with the design of future British ‘welfare reforms’. Her book ‘Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK… Read more
Railroading?
It was encouraging news on a recent Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme when Chris Grayling (the same who, as Justice Secretary wanted to charge defendants found guilty for the cost of their court cases, itself a policy so harmfully stupid that even Michael Gove abolished it) suggested that we are going to be able to open… Read more
EU Phase 1 Negotiation One Down and Two to Go?
As readers will know the three issues on which sufficient progress needs to be made before moving onto phase II are the “Divorce Bill”, EU citizens in the UK and visa versa and the Irish Border. Of the three Progressive Pulse’s analysis as discussed in detail six days ago was that the “Divorce Bill” was … Read more