The whole blog seems to have caught election fever, and what with various other priorities pulling my more creative attention away, I thought I might as well stick my oar in and let people know what my personal priorities are going to be around the election. Obviously, I think these should be your priorities too.
Firstly, the challenge to [...]
Guest post by Richard. B
On Monday the New Economics Foundation, a trendy lefty think tank with a penchant for all things green, released a report titled ‘Growth Isn’t Possible: Why We Needs a New Economic Direction’. Building on previous reports on how to transition to a sustainable economy, this report fills out the ‘why’ we [...]
The key headlines of the past few weeks have focused on pre-election measures and proposals aimed at trying to square the multitudinous circles of simultaneously getting the UK’s spiralling debt under control, creating a more equitable system, not cutting key public services, and reforming the financial system in a meaningful way in the midst of [...]
It is rare to hear government ministers predicting revolt. Yet in recent days, the Minister for Labour in Greece’s social-democratic government has done just that. Mr Lomberdos has warned that the package of austerity measures that his government are poised to implement will lead to “blood”. Already Greece has seen strikes and occupations.
Like Britain, Greece [...]
A few days ago I saw the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Those farmiliar with the film will know that it is pertinent in some ways to the situation today. Essentially it the plot revolves around George Bailey who runs a small “buildings and loans” company valiantly helping working class members of the community [...]
The world may be getting warmer, but, for one day at least, it looks as if hell is getting colder. What’s that? A piece of good news from Copenhagen? No, my friend, not one piece, but two! Not only is Europe pledging €2.4bn a year to help developing nations cope with the cost of climate [...]
When discussing economic inequality, we on the left need to be very clear about precisely what it is we’re objecting to. As I’ve said before, I have a vague plan at some point of writing an extended post about this, and one of these days I might get round to actually writing the damn thing. [...]
Guest post by Carl Packman
In my opinion, that famous neo-Hegelian thinker Francis Fukuyama – the man responsible for the predication in the late eighties/early nineties that at the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end-of-history had loomed upon us, and it had shown free-market capitalism to be the victor over socialism – has gone from [...]
In an exclusive interview with The Third Estate, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg sets out his vision for change
It can’t be easy, being the leader of Britain’s third major political party. Caught between a disintegrating New Labour and a resurgent Conservative Party waiting for its coronation, convincing the British public that what you have to [...]
What with the postal strike and Nick Griffin on Question Time totally dominating the news agenda, quite a few interesting news stories didn’t really get the attention they deserved this week. Perhaps the most notable of these was the breathtaking arrogance displayed by Goldman Sachs vice-chairman (and Tory peer) Lord Griffiths on Tuesday night.
I have [...]
