Showing posts with label business-and-economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business-and-economics. Show all posts
Monday, 8 November 2021

Thoughts and questions about what's happening.

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What difficulties does the ruling order in this country have?  1. Debt? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The media tell us that the debt is enormous bu...
Saturday, 23 October 2021

How did England get dealing with Covid in 2020 so wrong?

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  On February 3 2020, Boris Johnson gave a speech in Greenwich celebrating Brexit. In the speech he took time to talk about the oncoming pan...
Wednesday, 15 September 2021

The Banks are Taking over our Universities. Why?

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What did I learn at my union meeting (UCU) at Goldsmiths University of London today? That the banks are taking over universities. How is thi...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019

My advice to the media on how to handle the Labour leadership election

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1. You choose the next leader of the Labour Party, so make sure that you set the agenda for who will or won't succeed. This means that y...

My 10-point Guide to Labour Leadership Candidates

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1. The Economy: if you're asked about why 'Labour crashed the economy' - concede everything. Apologise profusely. Say, 'Yes ...
Friday, 29 November 2019

If the polls are right...

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If the polls are right and the Tories win and the last leftist antisemite the last alleged leftist antisemite and the last friend of...

How the Right racialises banking

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A pattern is emerging of powerful right wing people making persistent antisemitic jibes and slurs. Let's put some of these together: Ree...
Friday, 14 December 2018

Leave, Remain, Bremain, Rexit - it's not our battle.

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1. I assume that groups of capitalists and their sponsors in public and in government try very hard to do things which they think are best f...
Friday, 6 July 2018

'Neither Brussels or the City - for the many not the few'.

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I'm going to come over all marxist on this one. Surely, their division represents the crisis that they can't solve...
Monday, 2 July 2018

Rees-Mogg, the 'metropolitan establishment' and his own 'establishment'

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When Jacob Rees-Mogg signalled that there is something bad called the 'metropolitan establishment', we can ask, which part of himsel...
Thursday, 14 June 2018

National unity? I don't think so.

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One of the great claims of the Conservative Party is that it is the truly national, unionist party of the UK. It will always try to portray ...
Sunday, 18 February 2018

What is education for? The Tories know.

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You may have seen, heard or read that the new Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, is cooking up some kind of differentiated or g...
Saturday, 3 February 2018

Weasel Word number 103: 'affordable' housing

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This decade's Weasel Word number 103: 'affordable' housing.  Used instead of 'social housing'  as if it's the sam...
Thursday, 1 February 2018

Working for nothing x 2

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Did I spot a contradiction?  As business rushes forwards with automation,  employing people for fewer hours,  or not at all,  employe...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

You Wait Till You're Older - the curriculum as progress towards the workplace

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When you're at college  they say this is just a holiday;  you wait till you get out and face life and see what work is really li...
Sunday, 22 October 2017

Capitalism discovers something about low wages...

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Capitalism discovers that low wages don't buy the stuff that capitalism sells. So capitalism lends money so that people can buy stuff th...
Friday, 22 September 2017

It wasn't immigrants who crashed the banks....

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For Labour MPs going in hunt of votes by raising fears about 'non-British workers' It wasn't immigrants who crashed the banks It...
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Imaginary TV programme to explain the hoax of money, deficit and low wages.

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This is an imaginary TV programme. First of all, they show national economics and financing as politicians and commentators describe it: ...
Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Media does Groundhog Day with old, white depressed men in industrial decline zones.

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How many programmes have you watched where depressed and saddened men in their late 50s or older are sitting in a half-empty pub saying that...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

We don't know what's going on, they don't want us to know what's going on, but they want us to help them exploit us!

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The truth about EU/Brexit both before Referendum and now is simple: we, the people have no idea what's going on.  Why would we?  The ...