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Plea for fairer access to higher and postgraduate education, on practical as well as principled grounds. Wish it would be heard by todayβs philistine know nothing politicians
29.10.2025 14:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A strategy based on 'well, what if everything political science tells us, everything economics tells us and everything history tells us is wrong?' is ending in a predictable fashion.
28.10.2025 12:07 β π 352 π 67 π¬ 11 π 4
If you want to prevent crime, eliminate poverty. If you want to prevent violent crime, eliminate poverty and provide universal healthcare. Emma Goldman was almost right when she said every society has the criminals it deserves. In reality, every society has the criminals it creates.
28.10.2025 14:36 β π 156 π 45 π¬ 6 π 1
Being "tough on crime" is just a call for deterrence. And study after study has shown that deterrence doesn't work, except to sate society's demand for vengeance, to treat "criminals" cruelly. And THAT isn't even deterrence at all. It's retribution, and it precludes rehabilitation.
28.10.2025 14:36 β π 295 π 64 π¬ 4 π 6
Democracy for Sale
A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britainβs political and economic elites are entangled.
Democracy for Sale
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The best democracy money can buy said Greg Palast years ago. The government corporate complex laid bare by Grace Blakeley in this article reporting recent research by Autonomy
27.10.2025 15:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The perils of centrist economics in a polarised world | Kenneth Rogoff
A decade ago, a prominent analysis was falsely cast as a call for austerity. Our real offence was suggesting there might be a trade-off between debt and growth
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
For sure the hate responses to Rogoff are deplorable. But he is quite fond of dismissive polemic - βcrudeβ Keynesianism anyone? A crucial question is how debt is used? Investment for growth? Better public services to make people productive? Or tax cuts for rich?
27.10.2025 12:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Geert Wilders failed in government, but the far right retains its grip on the Netherlands | Cas Mudde
A media in thrall to Wildersβ party ensures its agenda is entrenched in Dutch politics and will dominate Wednesdayβs election, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Sad to see erstwhile bastions of liberals indeed of social democracy falling under right wing if not fascist control. Is it follow the money - the declining living standards and insecurity of most people being blamed on powerless scapegoats? Or deeper mass panic?
27.10.2025 12:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'Britainβs wealth gap is growing - the Chancellor must address it' - LabourList
The Budget gives Labour the opportunity to mitigate the risks wealth inequality poses to the nation says the Fairness Foundation.
βBritainβs wealth gap is growing β the Chancellor must address itβ labourlist.org/2025/10/chan... β via LabourList
Reeves please stop makingβhardβ choices that fall on the most vulnerable and narrowest shoulders. As outlined In these reports win win win with a virtuous circle attacking inequality
27.10.2025 11:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Economcs questions: the John Rawls question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer ofΒ political economyΒ might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...
Economcs questions: the John Rawls question www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Many condemn the odious current Labour policies and past present and proposed Right wing proposals as utterly unjust. But how can a leftist notion of justice be grounded? I have long turned to Rawls, summarised here
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GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY
How the US Lost Its Hold on Democracy
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The death of democracy foretold. The US lurch to terrifying tasteless tyranny brings tears and anger
26.10.2025 21:04 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Lead Untangles: The politicisation of net-zero
The consensus on net-zero has crumbled. What now?
national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...
The ultra rich contribute disproportionately to carbon emissions but also control media and politicians. Debate about net zero is rigged in their favour.
26.10.2025 15:07 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
Illuminating analysis of how ordinary people contribute to horrendous outcomes because war conditions focus attention on the here and now survival requirements, curtaining off any broader consequences
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Isnβt it awful seeing all those gammon pink faces!
26.10.2025 13:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Do populists always crash the economy?
Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This reveals the limitations of the term populism. Assimilating Left and Right presumably because both reject financial orthodoxy ignores their polar opposite aims. The Right benefit the wealthy behind populist rhetoric. The Left prioritise the many not the few
26.10.2025 12:17 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We are in a fight for democracy
Democracy really is under threat in the USA. Almost unmentioned by the media in the UK, it is grinding to a halt.
This comes from the ever-useful Letters from an American newsletter by Heather Cox Ri...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Democracy in danger as the dominant parties exacerbate the economic insecurity of the majority, shielded by media scapegoating of minorities not the culpable minority- the super rich.Can people begin to believe their own eyes rather than billionaire propaganda?
25.10.2025 19:33 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Keir Starmer shouldn't wait until the likely fiasco of the May local elections. If he has any concern for party and country, he should step aside now, giving his successor as long as possible to undo the damage of his disastrous premiership and restore hope in politics.
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Who destabilised Labour?
The election of Lucy Powell as deputy leader of the Labour Party, only a few weeks after she was removed from the Cabinet, is a rebuke by party members to Labourβs course under the leadership of Keir ...
Who destabilised Labour?
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Penetrating analysis of Starmer plight. Tacking to the Right in economics, welfare and immigration damages those Labour used to represent. Unethical and a vote loser the government is throwing away the next election and most of the nation
25.10.2025 16:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
So glad this book is a best seller and persuading many that standard media and legal stereotypes of crime are incoherent. Far more serious harms against bodies and property are perpetrated legally; a century ago Engels coined the term βsocial murderβ for this
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