I quote in full the editorial in the Morning Star the other day. (Sadly, a point that is missed is the fact NICE only rations drugs in the English NHS, which unlike other health services in the UK, is not controlled by a directly-elected devolved...
Topics: England, English parliament, healthcare, NHS, privatisation, Uncatagorised

From the Financial Times, a sign of the times:Harrods, one of the world’s most famous shops, faces the prospect of a summer strike during the height of the tourist season after workers began balloting for industrial action on Monday.Unite, Britain’s..
Topics: inflation, Uncatagorised, unions, wage restraint

Given that the government has just revealed that the DNA of forty thousand innocent children is stored on a national database, this is a timely report.From The Morning Star:PEACE campaigners called for the repeal of anti-terror laws on Friday after a...
Topics: civil liberties, fascism, police state, terrorism, Uncatagorised

A report by Bank of England governor Mervyn King on the future of the economy seems to have started a run on the pound.So we can take it that the news isn’t good for the bosses.We know it isn’t good for us: unemployment up, inflation up,...
Topics: Bank of England, credit crunch, economics, energy policy, housing, inflation, productive economy, recession, taxation, Uncatagorised, wage restraint

The Forgery Exchange has embarrassed Tory leader David Cameron with its call for people in Northern England to migrate to the South East en masse.While it’s true that investment in “regeneration” usually results in gentrification and...
Topics: economics, endogenous development, England, Labour Party, migration, poverty, productive economy, Tories, Uncatagorised, unemployment