Here’s some good news: economics students demanding that they get taught stuff about the real world instead of the nonsense that’s been gospel for the last 40 years.
Those of you who suspect that our politicians (Salmond, Swinney, Cameron, Osborne, Miliband, Balls, etc.) are clueless when it comes to sorting out our economy please watch Ben Dyson explaining how our money system actually works. Then you’ll understand why no-one from left, right, centre, or independent Scotland will be able to save us from…
Swiss To Vote On Universal Basic Income: How About That For A Referendum, Scotland?
Last month I wrote a piece about the European Citizens’ Initiative for a universal basic income but I had no idea that there was an organisation campaigning for just such a thing in Switzerland until a friend sent me this link from Reuters which tells us that there will be a referendum on the proposal sometime…
This article by David Greig is inspiring. He argues that the debate over Scottish independence is stirring up all sorts of ideas about how we should manage our lives and suggests that these are beginning to filter through into the mainstream media. I hope he’s right.
For those of you who have been following the Ralph Miliband story here’s an article from John Simkin that puts Miliband’s diary entry into context and exposes the extent of the Daily Mail’s breath-taking hypocrisy where love of country is involved.
Scottish Independence: Do They Really Want To Know?
The Yes Scotland campaign website has a page, “Undecided – tell us why?”, where you can fill in a form with your reasons for not knowing which way you might vote at next year’s independence referendum. A week or so ago I sent them this message: Our financial system is designed in such a way…
Why don’t we have a Dylan Ratigan anywhere in our mainstream media? What a breath of fresh air. Watch this and be inspired.
HS2 (high speed railway) is going to cost at least £55,000 million to carry an estimated 5.4 million passengers per year. For the same money we could spend an average of £4,500 on making half of the UK’s homes (12 million of them) more energy efficient, which would be of direct benefit to around 30…
Pensions In An Independent Scotland: A Waste Of White Paper.
I have just read through the Scottish Government’s white paper entitled “Pensions in an independent Scotland – September 2013”. If you’re too busy to read it for yourself I can summarise it’s contents as: “don’t worry, we’re going to keep everything the same as it is in the rest of the UK with the exception…
This is an interesting article from David Graeber in which he suggests that much of the “work” we do has no tangible benefit apart from making us feel that we’re part of the workforce. He maybe overstates the case a bit but who hasn’t spent time at work doing stuff that’s utterly pointless? Another good…
Views From The Boatshed 