Just when you thought that Channel4′s advertising policy couldn’t get any worse, they start putting up billboards like this. No doubt they believe that disabled people are an easy target, who won’t kick up a fuss. Please share, complain, graffiti, or whatever you deem to be the appropriate response.
A couple of weeks back the government the drew condemnation from certain progressive quarters, after it announced plans to restrict the numbers of skilled workers coming in to the UK. The response from some of my friends was disappointing but not altogether surprising. “Who will do all the jobs?”, was the question that some were [...]
I watched the Kony video that’s been doing the rounds on facebook all day. I laughed briefly at the idea that capitalism offers the technologies for solving peoples suffering, and then felt miserable. Of course capitalism has brought more suffering, more civil war, more starvation, more illness from dreadful working and living conditions, generally more [...]
This is a guest post by Amy Kavanagh. You can follow her on twitter at twitter.com/BlondeHistorian. While indulging in some guilty pleasure Daily Mail procrastination activity I came across the intellectually demanding feature, ‘Trick of the light? Samantha Cameron has ‘lollipop head’ look at charity event’. However it was one of the comments underneath this [...]
The amenable Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, sent a bit of a shiver through Brussels on Monday. He announced that while he supported fiscal union, the constitution meant that Ireland couldn’t sign up without first holding a referendum. In Brussels, annunciating the word referendum has roughly the same effect as saying “Ni!” to somebody. So averse are [...]
Sarphan Uzunoğlu, is an activist in Turkey, working for one of the country’s opposition MPs. Here he offers an analysis of the country’s fraught internal politics and the possibility of a war with Syria. WHAT IS GOING ON IN TURKEY? In Turkey Today, many questions are waiting to be answered. The Justice and Development Party [...]
So the Telegraph has “uncovered” the fact that some doctors are offering abortions without asking very many questions. Well golly, who’dda thunk it?! It hardly needs to be said that the Paper’s “expose” is more an exercise in advocacy than it is genuine investigative journalism. For decades it has been widely understood that British women [...]
We are all aware of the state of the job market at the moment: each vacancy is being chased by an ever-increasing number of jobseekers. As a jobseeker myself, I can only attest to the fact that it really is as bad as it sounds. The realities of workfare hit the news in the last [...]
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was an economic theorist whose views on money and unemployment became some of the most influential of the twentieth century, shaping government politice worldwide. Seeming to forget how badly that century went in its latter half as much as the first, scores of leftists have now been turning to various versions [...]
It occurred to me recently that we at The Third Estate hadn’t interacted much with fellow bloggers lately. So to jog my memory of who was out there I went over to Wikio. Using a metric that I can’t be bothered to explain, wikio lists the most “influential” blogs in order of ranking. What I [...]
