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Watch out, George Osborne: Smith, Marx and even the IMF are after you
When even the IMF’s free market ideologues recoil from the UK chancellor’s austerity politics, democracy itself is at stake George Osborne and his Treasury officials are gearing up for a fight. They’ve promised to make life difficult for the other … Continue reading
Bertrand Russell’s polite refusal to debate with Oswald Mosley
Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley in 1962. This is how to tell someone you won’t debate with them:
Charities give Clegg backing in call for overhaul of drug laws – Independent
The decriminalisation of some drugs appeared a more realistic prospect tonight after charities backed Nick Clegg???s call for a Royal Commission to review Britain???s 40-year-old laws on illegal substances. The Deputy Prime Minister warned that the co… Continue reading
Mehdi Hasan: Debunking the Five Biggest Media Myths About the Leveson Report
Last Thursday, Lord Justice Leveson published his epic report into “the culture, practices and ethics of the media”. He didn’t, for the record, call for a system of statutory regulation. He recommended an “independent” self-regulatory body underpi… Continue reading
Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! – Ramesh Patel, HuffPost
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on” – Winston Churchill As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David Cameron’s deficit claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk down the e… Continue reading
A million working adults face benefits cuts next year
Nearly 1.2 million people may be sanctioned if they do not obtain extra work, increase their hours or find a higher paying job Nearly 1.2 million working adults will for the first time next year face losing some of their benefits if they do not co… Continue reading
Mitt Romney and the myth of self-created millionaires – George Monbiot
The parasitical ultra-rich often deny the role of others in the acquisition of their wealth ??? and even seek to punish them for it We could call it Romnesia: the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money. To forg… Continue reading
Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right
A group of Conservative MPs are trying to seize the political agenda with some of the most rightwing ideas the party has seen in decades ??? and many are taking them seriously Dominic Raab ??? ‘People who are coasting ??? it should be easier to le… Continue reading
Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right
Dominic Raab ??? ‘People who are coasting ??? it should be easier to let them go.’ Photograph: Sutton-Hibbert/Rex Features ‘The talented and hard-working have nothing to fear,” says Dominic Raab, Conservative MP for Esher and Walton, with just the… Continue reading
Peasants’ Revolt: The time when women took up arms
An artist’s impression of an attack on Southchurch Hall during the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381 Until now the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 is largely believed to have been led by a mob of rebel men, but new research shows women played an important role in o… Continue reading
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