Via Dave Osler at Liberal Conspiracy:
The trouble with working out with the radio on is that you cannot fully concentrate on what is being said. But as I was on my fourth set of bicep curls this morning, I heard something that nearly made me drop my dumbbells on my toes.Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling was […]
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According to Government Figures 1% of benefits are fraudulently claimed
US employment, % change after recessions end
Via Brad De Long, a pretty interesting graph on the the changing degree of ‘improvement’ in the state of employment after the official end of recession.
Do the Tories not care about unemployment because of who votes for them?
Okay, it took me bloody forever to work out how to embed these svg images on a wordpress blog, but they should now be visible. If not have a look here.
This is from the touchstone (TUC think tank) blog. I’m pretty shocked by it to be honest. Its pretty clearly showing that where there is […]
Chris Dillow - “Necessity, choice & legitimation”
Chris Dillow on UK austerity:
For years, Marxists have been accused by their opponents of believing in a crude economic determinism. However, it is not so much Marxists who believe this as our rulers. George Osborne described his Budget yesterday as “unavoidable.” His stooges have described the measures as “necessary.”
This is […]
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
One of the oddest things about moving to England is the fact that the press is so right wing, and Sir Tony O’Reilly is so opportunistic, that the main O’Reilly newspaper is centre left. Anyway their front page today is pretty good.
Text reads:
Inside Parliament: “Legislation will be brought forward to restore freedoms […]
who votes for the BNP?
Another Article by me written for The Commune newspaper. Cut and pasted below
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The standard media portrayal of a BNP voter is of a poor, unskilled to semi-skilled white worker, who used to vote Labour, is worried about rising crime, unemployment and the rise in immigration. But is this really who votes BNP? […]
Feeling like Winston Smith?
There’s that bit at the end of Nineteen-Eighty-Four where Winston Smith predicts how the news will play out before it does. Sometimes I feel like this. Things play out as you’d expect them to. I’ve been joking for months with the question ‘Which of our friends will have joined the Labour Party over the next […]
Conservative-Liberal agreement document leak
I don’t know if this is real or not. But via Sonny H at Liberal Conspiracy here is what looks very much like the the agreement from the conservative -liberal negotiations.
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Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition negotiations
Agreements reached
11 May 2010
This document sets out agreements reached between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on a range of issues. These […]
Some note on Dean Baker’s “False Profits”
Recently, in response a request for “resources for understanding the economy”, I recommended a few books. The request was as follows:
The actually existing one I mean, the global economy and the US economy, not like general principles such as surplus value and exploitation, but what’s really been going on recently-ish…. I feel really […]
Possible Criminality behind the Iceland disaster
There’s an article on VOX.eu at the moment on the report by the Icelandic Parliament‘s Special Investigation Commission on what brought down their banks. The abstract/summary thing is:
What brought down Iceland’s banks? This column examines the revelations from the latest report from the Icelandic parliament, raising the possibility that the collapse of Iceland’s […]
