Showing posts with label David Cameron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Cameron. Show all posts
24 January 2014

Reclaiming the Economy

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  Davos 2014: Who is Wearing the Trousers?   Surely one of the important roles the media plays in our modern society is framing the na...
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19 October 2013

Deconstructing Austerity I. Money

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The narrative of austerity as proposed by Osborne and his cronies is that our huge national debt is the responsibility of feckless Labour po...
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30 September 2013

How Rising House Prices Serve George's Friends in the City

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There is a lot of controversy about the potential of the Help to Buy scheme to restart the housing bubble. I must say that I share this con...
23 January 2013

The Art of the Hypothetical

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The news, to my rather simplistic way of thinking, is about stuff wot happened. Today's headlines make clear just how wrong I am about...
16 January 2013

TINA Makes an Unwelcome Return

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The voice of authority telling you that you cannot possibly think a certain way or that their view of the world is simple common sense is ...
7 June 2012

Flying Down to Rio

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World leaders are gearing up for their trips to the global environmental conference in Rio later this month. With so much bad news around wh...
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9 December 2011

Unified Continent not Single Currency

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The first time that I was in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with Conservatives was some ten years ago when, on behalf of the Green P...
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21 August 2011

Who's Fooling Who[m]?

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This posts begins with a conversation I had with my daughter about whether Banksy would be elected as Mayor of Bristol if he chose to stand....
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19 August 2011

Which side are you on?

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Has anybody learned anything from the riots? The responses across the political spectrum suggest that people are reading into the events wha...
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17 August 2011

Man or Superman?

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In the wake of last week's riots there have been no shortage of supermen rushing forward to suggest how the rest of us might live. I hav...
15 August 2011

The Voice of Reason

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The following exchange from Hansard neatly illustrates the benefits and the limitations of having a Green MP: Caroline Lucas (Brighton, P...
5 July 2010

Shock till you Drop

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How many of your friends have told you recently that they feel lucky to still be in work? This is the sign of somebody who has already given...
7 June 2010

A Brief Word, Mr Cameron

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The class war has been launched, and not by the Labour Party. Cameron's speech today sets the scene for a principled stand in favour of ...
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5 October 2009

True Blue Never Fails

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At last the Tories have come out of their policy closet and given some detail on what they actually plan to do after the next election. And ...
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