We were surprised too 59
Posted on
December 14, 2013 by
Chris Cairns
The death of the social contract 78
Posted on
November 09, 2013 by
Scott Minto
The raison d’être of a government is to act in the interests of their populace, yet there’s a widespread perception that they instead now exist solely to serve the political and corporate elite, sometimes with not even lip service paid to the wishes of the public.
It’s a perception backed up by hard fact in the form of opinion polls, which demonstrate that the clearly-expressed desires of the electorate are regularly ignored by all parties in favour of blind ideology, cuts to services the public value, and tax breaks for those who don’t need them.
Whoever’s in power, the assets of the nation are sold off against the will of the people, in the name of a private-sector market ideology, for the short-term profit of wealthy City speculators, and for the benefit of other countries who ironically often end up running British industries as (foreign) state-owned public enterprises.
This happens because the votes of most of the electorate don’t count for anything.
Swimming against the tide 118
Posted on
August 21, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we were forced to consider Labour’s “One Nation” policy again today, we couldn’t help thinking back to something that happened in London just a week ago.
Consumed with what’s to transpire 37
Posted on
August 10, 2013 by
Chris Cairns
