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George Osborne — Mockney Sparrow
News of George Osborne adopting a Mockney accent while addressing supermarket workers has caused widespread hilarity. But it’s a common phenomenon. I’ve lived for twenty years in an area of London...
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Thatcher Is Dead
Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013 It’s turning out to be an awfully good year for the Argentines >.< I know this has been rumoured in the past before, but this time she really bloody well is :...
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Margaret Thatcher ~ Genuine Enemy Within
I walk past The Ritz Hotel twice a day and work five minutes away. It’s a unique part of London: home to the gentlemen’s clubs; near Mayfair where the hedge fund managers live (with their armies of...
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Žižek on Thatcher
How are we to read a strange article by Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the late Maggie Thatcher? There are books on how to read Derrida and Žižek literally wrote the book on how to read Lacan...
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Muslims, Beards, Finger-Pointing & Spooks
Is it really that difficult for Western security agencies to catch young alleged Muslims who have decided to engage in a spot of mass-murder? Okay, a few clever ones will get a short back and sides,...
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The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher: The shadow she casts still divides a nation Yes, we are a richer nation perhaps because of her, but most of that wealth has gone to those who were already well off anyway. The poor...
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What Should Labour Do?
So Ed, which way do you go? Some Union leaders have called upon Labour to abandon austerity entirely. But I believe that this would be a serious tactical error that would play into Tory hands. Whatever...
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Giving British Proles a Good Kick
First, the proles had their trade unions. But they went on strike too much, demanded too generous a share of company profits. So the unions were neutered or destroyed. Second, the proles had heavy...
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UK 2013 Local Elections: Quick Analysis
Election coverage in the UK is terrible. It seems to largely revolve around meaningless statistics, self proclaimed ‘experts’ and whizzy graphics. To correct this I will present my own quick and dirty...
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Control of Borders
A nation state consists of lines on a map defended by force. The political truism “It’s the economy stupid” rests on a more fundamental one: squaddies in sufficient numbers, adequately trained,...
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Britain Is A Household After All
Its that metaphor that infuriates as much as it misleads, depending upon which side of the political fence you lay your hat. I am of course talking about that common descriptor of balancing the...
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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...
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Comrades At War
The increasingly bitter dispute between the Labour party and the Unite union threatens to fatally undermine the party’s chances of winning the 2015 general election. Labour needs to decide which kind...
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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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David Cameron has revealed that he intends to force all internet service providers to filter porn unless adults opt in. But the trouble with this sort of proposal is the danger of it becoming the thin...
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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...
View ArticleHigh on Fracking Fumes
It seems the wealthy, conservative, NIMBY, but environmentally friendly, Balcombe villagers, filled with house-price gloom and an outraged sense of entitlement, have climbed into bed with the dirty...
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Police State UK: Lines in the Sand
Two shocking stories that highlight the extent to which the UK has become a police state emerged this week. The first was the detention without cause or suspicion of David Mirranda at Heathrow...
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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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