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We Simply Cannot Afford This Wasteful Government
There is a fascinating paradox at the heart of current government policy. That is that in the name of reducing government expenditure and waste the government are increasing government expenditure and...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Economy
Commentators claim George Osborne is confused, vacuous and out of his depth, as austerity economics drives Britain into an unprecedented depression. Not true. George is a state-hater. We’ve all met...
View ArticleThe Bedroom Tax: A Professional View
I feel forced, thanks to the bedroom tax, to let my anonymity slip slightly and disclose the fact that by day I work as a policy specialist in the UK housing sector. This post is in response to wild...
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A “Poll Tax” Moment for the Coalition?
Deep cuts to Britain’s welfare state lock in today. How angry are people likely to get? Or, to put the question differently, has the Coalition made the wrong people angry? The key to the Poll Tax was...
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Why Is There So Little Anger About All These Scroungers?
Britain’s right wing media have long been engaged in a sustained attack against the poor, vulnerable and excluded. Increasingly the logic of this attack focuses on how, supposedly, these groups are a...
View Article“Crawley Man”
Labour MP Caroline Flint has suggested that the previous key demographic constructs that electoral strategists used to dream about wooing at night – namely “Mondeo Man” and “Worcester Woman” – have...
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Austerity isn’t working. A better way.
Austerity isn’t working – taking advantage of low interest rates could reflate the economy. Borrowing at rates of interest currently well below the rate of inflation, in order to spend in areas that...
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Working for a UK Supermarket
As someone who works as a checkout assistant for a large supermarket, I thought I would write an account of what it can be like. I do actually enjoy my job, and to be fair most of the managers and...
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Housing: stripping the poor of money & power
A few years ago our local Labour council came up with the idea of “stock transfer” i.e. transferring our remaining council housing out of council ownership and control and giving it to a newly formed...
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Contesting Common Sense: Stuart Hall’s Challenge to the Left
The death of Stuart Hall (cultural theorist and political philosopher), much like his life and work, has got me thinking.We live in an age where to look beyond the appearance of things is to be...
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