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Entries from February 2009

Donate your TV Licence Fee to Gaza

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s that simple. Donate your TV Licence Fee to the Gaza DEC Appeal.
I have.

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Tags: Personal · current affairs

Laissez-Faire Capitalism: Is it over, yet?

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

It’s time to drive the final nail into the coffin of laissez-faire capitalism by treating it like the discredited ideology it inarguably is. If not, the Dr. Frankensteins of the right will surely try to revive the monster and send it marauding through our economy once again.

We’ve got to do everything we can to make […]

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Tags: Economics · Politics

The UK strikes are not xenophobic

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Do we defend globalisation, with its laissez-faire allowance of the exploitation of cheap mobile labour (see the construction workers shipped in with no rights and horrible pay to work on the building projects in Dubai for an extreme example), because of a liberal hang-wringing urge to shout about racism and xenophobism?
This is not nationalism, it […]

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Tags: Economics · Politics

On war: Slaughterhouse-Five

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve just started reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, a kind of autobiography about his experience of the fire bombing of Dresden, “The Florence of the Elbe”, in the Second World War. Early on the book describes how he went to visit one of the men he served with, and finds his wife is angry with […]

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Tags: History · Politics