...but rather try to become a man of value. "
Albert Einstein

...by use of the crudest form of economic pressure, even blackmail, against a Labour Government. Compared to this, the pressure brought to bear in industrial disputes is minuscule. This power was revealed even more clearly in 1976 when the IMF secured cuts in our public expenditure. These lessons led me to the conclusion that the UK is only ( Read more... )

... no justice of a little city like ( Read more... )

The first and major reason is that ALL your data is shared with any application you accept. Many of these are simply Marketing tools to access this data in order to sell you stuff. Getting more spam recently? We all signed up to this when we joined Facebook, take a look at the Terms and Conditions and THEN take a look at the 'extra permissions' ( Read more... )

...that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."

Joseph Conrad, 1896

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...to be brazenly materialistic, selfish, depoliticized and non-socially minded. To the extent one finds these values problematic for a democracy, we all should be concerned. The commercial media is the ideological lynchpin of the globalising market economy ( Read more... )

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The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons and now races on to the third reading in the House of Lords ( Read more... )

...in which truth, as ever has been an immediate casualty. In one corner are companies like Exxon who are fighting a head-to head war of attrition denying that global warming is occuring and/or that it is a man-made problem for which they have any responsibility. Against them are groups like Greenpeace, 'cranking up the anxiety' with highly ( Read more... )