Short answer is – of course it is. Even with its pretty Tory agenda. Mostly because it is free to air. Then a major addition – or in fact subtraction – no adverts! themselves so pro- consumption and damaging to both the environment and the alleged desire of us all to ‘consume’. It is also… Read more
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A parable for both fairness and the climate
Oxfam in recent article have released news that the Covid pandemic has made inequality even worse: New billionaire minted every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds In a new briefing “Inequality Kills,” published today ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda, Oxfam says that inequality is… Read more
Interesting case…
A little (but unfortunately only a little) levity for the weekend: This quote surely is designed for economists who seem to be quite unaware how money fits in or even where it actually comes from. Then there is this suitcase – which is probably far more important: Looks to be fine for going to the… Read more
Jolyon Maugham speaks to Owen Jones
I thought this interesting 17 minutes well worth it – in which Jolyon Maugham outlines his incredulity at the corrupt government practices he discovered and what he and the Good Law Project are trying to do about it: Jolyon Maugham explains things simply and well – and in the current situation his Good Law Project… Read more
Victim Support needed
Labour has, I suggest, to become, in essence, the ‘victim support’ party. Victim support is an independent charity in England and Wales that provides specialist practical and emotional support to victims (and witnesses) of crime. Politically, because the Tories show themselves as now so psychopathic, I’d suggest that most of us are victims of our,… Read more
Lying leads to incoherence
This is a really good piece in the ‘i’ from Ian Dunt. He recounts the disaster of the office supplies previously mentioned… He goes on to say that the current government is: An administration which has a sorry relationship with truthfulness, crumbling under its own contradictions. That’s being kind… But of more consequence, he points… Read more
Particular threat for the Met Police
Many organisations are going to face a huge challenge trying to rebuild public trust when this government is finally thrown out. And surely and most prominently, the Metropolitan Police will find it particularly difficult? Their chief, who was probably a onetime spy, are now too close to this overtly corrupt, Conservative government, to suggest they… Read more
The advantage of ‘Lovely weather’
This is worth giving more airing – a ‘lovely’ and compelling poem to make that legitimate criticism hit home by Brian Bilston:… Read more
Understanding the Right Wing mind – a further small insight….
Was suggested by an interesting recent Guardian (or perhaps it was Observer?) article – anyway it is here, by Nick Cohen. It encompasses public health, obesity and diet – about which he is at one with ProgressivePulse – by way of the Dimbleby Food report. Henry Dimbleby is apparently another Old Etonian, who seemed to… Read more
Endemic health
Amid worrying news of Cyprus discovering a new Covid variant that appears to combine Delta and Omicron characteristics, we have a regular array of Conservative MP’s saying that Covid will become ‘endemic’, as though that somehow means it’s all okay and we can relax and switch off. What it really means is that it is… Read more