Discussing nationalisation of RBS, as a way of supporting small businesses, while rolling out a Universal Credit project that demands they close down if not profitable in this economy, is absurd. And a sign of how fucked our political, media and finance establishment are. This is a post I will... Continue reading

I can’t get this out of my head. The Weimar Republic were heavily in debt to the US. After the Wall Street crash, debts had to be called in quickly. Chaos ensued. It was not the printing money at the root of hyperinflation and I know why it’s a kind... Continue reading

The working class are not racist. You are. And the culture around you. You measure responses to YOUR news cycle to prove our racism. Stop projecting it onto us and ask your newspapers to do the same. You want racist policy, own it. Stop being such a coward. Continue reading

This generation have a unique privilege. We get to live through history, record it without editorial restriction and say we couldn't stop what you were doing, but we knew it was bollocks at the time and we said so and explained why. In an age where history turns over in... Continue reading

Read this, the guy who recommended that we just have the ability to sack at will, was making recommendations he pulled out of the air. WHo’d a thunk it. My favourite line in this article is ‘But there were more than 20 recommendations, most of which have been implemented and... Continue reading

It isn't July, and I have been saving for christmas for about two months. Most people I know save from about now, pick up presents, or put money away. I use a credit union, it means this year by the time December comes I wont have to find extra money... Continue reading

If I was a Sunny Hundal, I would think twice about using the crimes involved in the Rochdale grooming case to self aggrandise. First of all it is not about race, and he needs to be quiet. Every word of this article makes him look an idiot. Secondly I might... Continue reading

President Reagan, Brandenburg Gate....... Continue reading

According to James Mackintosh of the Financial Times, JP Morgan produced some figures today that showed where the money provided to Greece in its much-publicised bailouts actually went. Here's what James said on twitter: "JP Morgan estimates only €15bn of €410bn total "aid" to Greece went into economy - rest... Continue reading

You are such an utter tit. Continue reading

The London Metal Exchange has been flogged to the Chinese, and our oil major faces an undignified future, while Canada and Australia position themselves as special friends who can offer something to the new big boys in their yard. Our particular niche skills are no longer required. It’s all about... Continue reading

The London Metal Exchange has been flogged to the Chinese, and our oil major faces an undignified future, while Canada and Australia position themselves as special friends who can offer something to the new big boys in their yard. Our particular niche skills are no longer required. It’s all about... Continue reading

What are we doing about our broken banking system? Broken? Oh, the banking system…we just did austerity and are about to repackage it….we are also considering getting banks to pay treasury staff, and er ….we are still mainly treating banks as the thing that will solve all our problems and... Continue reading

The only way to economic and political credibility is to restore the visibility of the parts of our economy which should be the monitors of economic health, to political debate. We need dynamic social policy that responds to and warns of market failure, efficiently run with boundaries on political interference... Continue reading

Becoming hard to hide The grotesque consequences of 3 decades of unexamined marketization, are likely to become a regular feature in our headlines from about now, like it or not. The Rochdale Grooming case is the tip of the iceberg and the DWP one of the biggest sources of the... Continue reading

Shit flinging monkey wheel? Political Parties who populate the wheel are still on business as usual and haven’t grasped their brand new trading environment, seemingly now scraping the bottom of their shared blue sky box. It will be months before we have any clue whether they are capable of being... Continue reading

The extremes our political culture will go to, to avoid addressing the death of the centre position have been entertaining. Labour has been coloured every hue and fuck knows where they pulled Maurice Glasman from, I’d never heard of him pre-Blue Labour and I shouldn’t think I will again… We... Continue reading

Rebekah Brooks has been exposed as David Cameron’s life coach and Blair was dressed in white at the christening site of Jesus to be Godfather to the Murdoch sproglet. This would be less of a problem if the type of economic, foreign, and social policy hidden under the narrative Murdoch... Continue reading

In the UK, right now, we essentially exist with no government, no opposition, and the entire edifice our political media culture built and protected is crumbling with US hegemony. The chains exposed, are as quaint as carrier pigeon, mafia hoods, and telegram by bicycle. Our political media obviously still stuck... Continue reading

The narrative of a little England undermining Europe has been lovingly crafted by everyone from Obama and Osborne, Merkozy, Blair and Balls. The US and UK are now happy to blame Europe for everything that ails them. Blaming it all on Germany will make everyone forget that the whole world... Continue reading

In the inimitable way that defines him as one of our most cherished shock doctrine war criminals, Tony Blair sees this as ‘reconstruction’ opportunity. The jibberings of a little girl determined to have one more piece of cake and a jump on the bouncy castle, as a solution to it... Continue reading

The Eurozone The Eurozone comprises a ‘’ comprises a currency and a central bank without a government’’ said Paul Mason in this New Statesman article in 2010. When I mentioned it to someone, they said ‘yeah, and no reserve’. We are now way beyond the ‘door marked austerity’. In the... Continue reading

First signs? The first signs of what is currently happening that shouldn’t have been ignored. Lehmans Brothers and Bear Sterns. Its manifestations pierced our headlines this last week from Egypt, Greecehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/pasoks-venizelos-says-greece-has-government, the Leveson courtroom, the balance sheets of European sovereign states and banks, and the funerals of those deemed undeserving... Continue reading

There is a lot I want to upload today, some of these posts are half formed and I will come back to them when this is all this is over and edit. Don’t persevere if it’s unreadable, it’s never worth it ;-D Taking stock Sometimes it is a bit difficult... Continue reading

riday, 8 June 2012 KNOCK ME DOWN WITH A FEATHER... Today I saw a pig fly. It was silhouetted in front of a blue moon and had been catapulted up there by a unicorn. And none of it blew my mind just as much as the news that the Metropolitan... Continue reading