Proven: IMF brings down economies intentionally
Unless you’ve read Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’, I bet you’ve never heard of Davison Budhoo. I certainly hadn’t, until I read the book. Budhoo was a Caribbean economist, trained […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Well worth reading in conjunction with my posts on the monthly employment stats!
Cameron & co will use even the Paralympics against disabled people
Alongside the many inspiring and humbling things we’re going to see during the Paralympics, we’re also, unfortunately, in for a series of nauseating spectacles – in fact, they’ve already begun. […]
A horror short: if the UK lost the NHS and looked like the US
I and others have written at length about Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s catastrophic Health and Social Care Act and the disastrous effect it’s having on the NHS. I’ve written variously […]
Zero-hours contracts mean far worse than ‘no guaranteed hours’
(If you’re reading this and you’re on a ZHC and would be willing to contribute your story toward a project I’m planning on the impact of ZHCs, please let me […]
Staggering: zero-hours contracts in the NHS
In my analyses of monthly employment stats, I’ve written about ‘zero-hours contracts‘, and the matter has been receiving some media attention over the last week or two. ZHCs, as the […]
My application for Labour candidate selection
Very brief, this one. Following encouragement from various people who either know me in person or follow this blog/my comments on Twitter, I’ve just sent in my application to be […]
Resilient parasites? Privateers to ‘exploit’ NHS ‘brand’ abroad
I have to confess a grudging admiration for the NHS privateers this morning. Not in a positive way, of course. More like the kind of admiration you feel for the […]
‘Lazy’ workers: the ignorance and shamelessness of Tory ‘rising stars’
The area where I live is blessed with some incredible countryside with the Dales on one side and the North Yorkshire moors on another. Whenever I visit a place of […]
Govt lies, then refuses Leveson testimony FOI ‘in the public interest’!
In the time that I’ve been using the FOI Act to try to uncover government misdeeds, misinformation and downright lies, I’ve seen some very varied responses, but this just about takes […]