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A Despatch from OccupyLSX
I’ve wanted to drop in on the OccupyLSX camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral ever since it was set up and on Tuesday I finally got there. I wandered down with…
Occupy LSX, Monopoly and Mindless Materialism
Growing up, did you ever play Monopoly or Risk? Did you ever get to a point where you simply picked up the board, chucked the pieces in the air and…
St Paul’s – for the 1% or the 99%?
I’m not an unalloyed fan of the man who gave his name to St Paul’s Cathedral. Saul of Tarsus was an uncomfortable and divisive figure in early Christianity. Many of…
How Much is that Minister in the Window?
We don’t want capitalism, we want democracy. Capitalism is not simply people going about their lives setting up businesses, providing good and services and jobs. Most of us need some…
Greens and growth
Greens don’t like growth. It’s the mantra. We like to talk about a ‘stable’ economy; one that neither grows nor shrinks. The trouble with maintaining a zero growth economy is…
Sweeping Up Glass
"Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness" Tom Paine, Rights of Man. I watched London consumed by fire on Monday…
A Thousand Questions but Just One Issue
There is a single issue at the heart of the News Corp. scandal from which all others emanate, and that is the influence that the corporate world and the very,…
An Open Letter to Jenny Jones
Dear Jenny, I’ve been following your thoughts on Twitter about yesterday’s select committee hearings which saw Andy Hayman and John Yates volunteer to open the parliamentary barbecue season. I sense…
Murdoch is a cancer. Sharpen the Scalpel.
We only have ourselves to blame. For years we’ve accepted that politicians and celebrities are somehow fair game for the attentions of the tabloid press. It’s allowed a culture to…
Short words are the best
OK, forgive me if this puts a few noses out of joint, but I have an axe to grind, Eugene. There has been a very interesting discussion on Bright Green…