Democracy

This is excellent work from Tortoise Media (for, as they say, slow news)… It is worth listening to the short introduction below – then the link to the database itself is here: A real democratic service which makes for interesting reading – even when you discover that your own MP, like mine, hasn’t really received... Read more

I think that the right to strike is unquestionably a democratic right as argued in the Guardian here – surely anything else is just indentured labour? Apparently the way to tame the unions is to destroy their immunity from being sued for any harm striking might cause – or as the same article puts it:... Read more

Ever since Donald Trump became president, Democrats have taken to equating the fate of their own party to the fate of American democracy. In a two-party system, the logical conclusion is that this is profoundly undemocratic.

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by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 There are quite a few economists who suffer from …

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There is an interesting recent article on buses from the ‘I’ Newspaper pointing out the disastrous consequences of Thatcher’s deregulatory regime, which has led to a decline in bus passengers everywhere except where the deregulation didn’t happen – which is London, such that London now accounts for almost half of all bus passengers in the... Read more

With a remit of keeping inflation at 2%…. Halving inflation is the top item on Sunak’s wish list below. Of course his personal target of halving inflation should be a sure fire winner as the prices of same period in the previous year end up gradually nearer to those of ‘today’ – the inflation has... Read more

I enjoyed this mere two minute critique of Sunak’s recent speech – and every bit is true:... Read more

..in ten handy points, which I thought was not a bad summary:... Read more

Emma De Souza reports on how countries are tackling the rise in misinformation through the legal and education systems

I had not seen this informative video before – nine and a half minutes of background on how we got here. It is remarkable how the Tories have successfully remodelled the NHS on principles quite different from those at its its foundation – and just as remarkably how Labour has failed both to see the... Read more