Thursday, 29 January 2015

Forcing people into malevolent machines

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If there was one wrong assumption about the government of the New Labour years (and there was), it was the idea that no administrative probl...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

A chink in the Great Wall between government and governed

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The story of the emergence of a political counterculture, initially in the late 1950s and given voice by the Liberals, and thereon spilling...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Three bottomless money pits

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Well, it is true that I'm a little disappointed that - despite three Lib Dem MPs signing a motion that would have imposed a moratorium o...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Which comes first: maths or the world it describes?

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When I should be blogging about politics, I find that I can't stop thinking instead about an article by the brilliant Bryan Appleyard, a...
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Thursday, 22 January 2015

Jerusalem might save our politics from stagnation

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Not content with saving pubs from monopolistic pubcos, Leeds Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland seems to have done more than most to make Jerusalem ...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015

The euro and the strange blinkers of power

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Now that the eurozone appears to be about to be bailed out, very controversially, by the European Central Bank - I've been looking back ...
Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Plutonomy corrodes the middle classes too

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The news that the richest one per cent of the world's population will shortly own more than the other 99 per cent is an important symbol...