So it’s fallen to Alan Milburn, of all people, to confirm what a lot of people have long suspected: equality of opportunity in Britain is a bad joke, and getting worse. The Panel on Fair Access to the Professions has concluded that, surprise surprise, it’s much easier to get a good graduate-level job if you’re [...]
Heroes The Tories: Flying high in the polls on the back of Labour’s most crushing defeat in almost a century at the European Elections, it is unsurprising that the Tories came out on top in the Norwich North by-election, overturning a majority of over 5,000 to take the seat from Labour. Gaining close to 40% [...]
Guest post by Ruth Lukom. The other morning I heard Labour minister Alan Milburn praise ‘pushy parents.’ It was said during the discussion on the report he has just compiled that reveals children of wealthier well-connected parents seem to get the best jobs in Britain. Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Milburn [...]
Hillary Clinton announced today that if Iran succeeds in developing nuclear weapons, America could look at arming its allies in the region to defend against the threat. “We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment: that if the United States extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even [...]
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At 7:45 this evening workers at Vestas – a plant that produces blades for wind turbines – occupied their factory on the Isle of Wight For some time now workers and climate activists have campaign against plans which to shut Britain’s only factory manufacturing turbine blades and to throw 500 workers on the dole. That a [...]
For years now, the authoritarianism of the Labour government has enabled the Conservatives to pose as champions of civil liberties. Yet recent comments by shadow home secretary Chris Grayling illustrate how superficial such commitments really are. In a speech the other day Grayling billed his new proposals – in words to make Daily Mail readers [...]
Icons are not an ideal means to talk about politics. To make someone an icon is to transform a person into a static timeless idea. All that once was political is violently removed. All that is human is removed too. Graduation ceremonies here in Britain hear quotations from Gandhi and Mandela without reference to the [...]
New Carnival of Socialism over at Renegade Eye, check it out: Carnival of Socialism # 40 Is Here The Carnival of Socialism # 40 is here. At it’s description profile it says, “The Carnival of Socialism attempts to bring a fortnightly round up of everything that’s going on in the global socialist blogosphere.” Hopfully this [...]
N.B. This is the first of a number of posts from a recent trip to Eastern Europe. I’d hoped to put them up as I travelled, but technology and time got in the way. Eastern Europe is a land of myths and legends. I don’t mean the sorts of myths that the guide books [...]
