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
Originally posted on the void:
More evidence is emerging of how the unemployment figures are manipulated more by current policies at the DWP than any true measure of the number…
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 […]
