Is Dumbing Down a Reality?
May 15, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
As the future of public service broadcasting is uncertain, it is timely now to again ask a familiar question and to broaden the debate beyond the confines of sectional interest
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Self, Celebrity, Debt And Sport
May 15, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect" Mark Twain
What is to be Done with the Banks? Radical Proposals for Radical Changes
May 15, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Immediate measures for moving towards socialisation of the banking sector
Corbyn Wins Despite All The Negative Reporting
May 9, 2016 4:18 pm Leave your thoughts
After all the biased and negative predictions, all day and every day before the local elections, leading people to believe that under Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party would suffer, the media are now busy ignoring what they said and wrote
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California?
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead
A Question of Perspective
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
David Morgan explains why Tom Driberg's book, "Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background" is still well worth reading.
Clean eating versus industry
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts During the eighties and nineties here in the UK we were broadly encouraged to eat lower fat spreads such as margarine, associated with a push for polyunsaturated fat consumption
“Us” and “Them”
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Some days ago, Yitzhak Herzog said something especially obnoxious. He declared that his party is failing at elections because people believe that its members are "Arab lovers".
Holocaust Education and the Iraqi Community
May 7, 2016 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place each year on the 27th January and is marked on that day to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, by the Soviet Union's Red Army
Iraq – US Apocalypse in Mosul in the Guise of Bombing ISIS
May 1, 2016 6:57 pm Leave your thoughts
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." (Albert Camus 1913-1960).