When I look around at the state of public discourse in ‘the West’ what strikes me is that everyone says they want to have a reasoned and rational debate but say that the reason it doesn’t happen is because the ‘other side’ is irrational and so they can’t be debated with. The ‘other side’, their …
How to prevent debate while claiming to be in favour of it. Read More »
While everyone is endlessly told about the world-ending dangers of Brexit, I wonder if we should be paying a little more attention to “Deutsche-it”. If the UK leaves the EU the EU will survive. But what happens when – and surely it’s no longer if – but when Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest and only truly …
It’s not Brexit but “Deutsche-it” you want to worry about Read More »
“We have broken no laws and cooperated with the government at all times.” Variations of that statement seem to be the default defence of everyone from bankers to politicians when their names come up in the Panama Papers. In the UK the latest to resort to some version of it, was first Downing Street on …
I have largely kept my personal party politics out of this blog. But as many of you know I am running as the parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in Scarborough and Whitby. I hope you will forgive me this one post. If people think it out of place please just say so and I …
Once again the current rulers of the USA have decided some little dusky-brown skinned people need to be saved from some other dusky-brown skinned people. Once again they’ll be saving them by bombing. Carefully, of course, and with every effort made to kill only the bad brown ones and not the good brown ones, and …
In a democracy rule is by consent. In a dictatorship it is by control. Which do we have in the West? It seems to me, it is no longer clear. We certainly still have the rituals of rule by consent. But behind the elected front men and women is a shadow state. It’s people ritually …
NSA/GCHQ – The New Praetorians and the New Cold War Read More »
“Making the Truth Illegal” is the title of the only post I have ever removed from this blog. I removed it because I was threatened with legal consequences if I did not. (Plus, I would like to add, some of the way I had written the blog post was stupid and could have hurt someone …
Back in December of 2012, when it was proved in U.S. court that billions of dollars of drug money had been laundered through HSBC and yet somehow it was also found that HSBC was NOT guilty of laundering and neither was anyone in the bank, there was an outcry. In America Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, …
1) Whither Growth Never has a society spoken so much about growth, yet achieved so little. Time and time again predictions of recovery and a return to normal levels of economic growth have proven premature. The phrase “triple dip recession” has now entered the lexicon in the UK as GDP figures look like turning south …
The Slippery Grip of Growth – Guest Post by Hawkeye Read More »
Today the art of politics is to take public concern, anger or bigotry and create a channel for it so that like flood water you can destroy one place or group while protecting another. Mr Cameron and his flag waving concern to restore Britain’s lost sovereignty is a case in point. The Conservative party has, …
