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So Saturday’s anti-austerity marches in London and Glasgow were just the latest of a continuing campaign. Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn and comedian-come-revolutionary Russell Brand addressed the assembled hordes in
Read MoreMarching won’t beat austerity, but a debt rebellion might
Political power has been stolen from the British people. Through a combination of an outdated voting system and a neoliberal-friendly political campaign, the Conservatives won Thursday’s general election with just 36.9%
Read MoreDavid Cameron’s Tory government is completely illegitimate … Now for the rebellion
It’s barely two days since the UK general election, and you could be forgiven for thinking that virtually no Britons with any sense voted for anyone but the Conservatives. All
So Canterbury was the scene of one of the most rowdy editions of the BBC’s flagship political discussion programme Question Time for some years. Well, it was always likely to
Read MoreThink Russell Brand is ugly? You’ve seen nothing yet.
UK property prices rose by 7.3% in the year to January, according the latest Halifax house price index figures, chiming with other reports that reflect a widespread property boom. The
Read MoreChancellor backs building drive to fix ‘historic’ housing shortage
UK interest rates look set to stay at their historically low level, thanks to worse-than-expected growth figures released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics. While chancellor George Osborne was
Read MoreWeak, unbalanced recovery gives hard-pressed homeowners interest rate reprieve
http://youtu.be/21YgNmmLKV8 This is probably the most direct and clear-cut illustration of Britain’s kleptocratic economic regime, as explained in Max Keiser’s characteristic polemic style. However, regardless of the style of presentation,
Read MoreIt wasn’t a recession, but a robbery. And now it’s economic cleansing…
Why does George Osborne always look so wan and anaemic? I know the pressure of power can make a man look a bit peaky, but I can’t remember a time
Before 2010, if someone had ever told me that we were “all in this together”, I would have assumed he/she was referring to a challenge or issue that 1) affected