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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Can You Pursue Happiness! Pursuing happiness is another manifestation of self obsession; it is the antithesis of what happiness is about. It is not something to be pursued; it is a by-product of our relationships with other human beings, and best achieved by helping others and by being kind, empathetic and forgiving.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013Can You Pursue Happiness! Pursuing happiness is another manifestation of self obsession; it is the antithesis of what happiness is about. It is not something to be pursued; it is a by-product of our relationships with other human beings, and best achieved by helping others and by being kind, empathetic and forgiving.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Another Economic Crash Is Inevitable The economic crash of 2008 left people in their millions across the globe bewildered and shocked by the catastrophe and devastation inflicted on their lives. People find it difficult to comprehend how a few powerful bankers could cause so much damage and misery to the lives of countless millions.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013Another Economic Crash Is Inevitable The economic crash of 2008 left people in their millions across the globe bewildered and shocked by the catastrophe and devastation inflicted on their lives. People find it difficult to comprehend how a few powerful bankers could cause so much damage and misery to the lives of countless millions.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
The Narrow Framing of Debate on Capitalism Stifles Democracy "This must be a nation where people have a voice, [and] we don't have a voice anymore"; so said a Brazilian protester quoted in the Guardian. This comment could so easily have been made by a European or an American.
Saturday, June 29, 2013The Narrow Framing of Debate on Capitalism Stifles Democracy "This must be a nation where people have a voice, [and] we don't have a voice anymore"; so said a Brazilian protester quoted in the Guardian. This comment could so easily have been made by a European or an American.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Let's Invest the Billions of Taxpayer Pounds Poured into British Banks in the People and Future of Britain! Let us escape from the straightjacket imposed by the "moneymen" and conventional economics. We need to take the money back, gradually, from the banks, and invest in the people and the future of Britain. Sometimes, the obvious and simple thing to do is also the right thing to do.
Friday, May 31, 2013Let's Invest the Billions of Taxpayer Pounds Poured into British Banks in the People and Future of Britain! Let us escape from the straightjacket imposed by the "moneymen" and conventional economics. We need to take the money back, gradually, from the banks, and invest in the people and the future of Britain. Sometimes, the obvious and simple thing to do is also the right thing to do.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Climate Change: Governments Must Act to Reduce CO2 Emissions If we, as a society, deem climate change the greatest threat facing humanity and that urgent action is needed to limit our CO2 emissions, then printing money to achieve that aim need not be inflationary because there is corresponding work associated with it, creating sustainable growth and boosting GDP. Systems will be manufactured, people will be employed, and opportunities for export will open up.
Saturday, May 11, 2013Climate Change: Governments Must Act to Reduce CO2 Emissions If we, as a society, deem climate change the greatest threat facing humanity and that urgent action is needed to limit our CO2 emissions, then printing money to achieve that aim need not be inflationary because there is corresponding work associated with it, creating sustainable growth and boosting GDP. Systems will be manufactured, people will be employed, and opportunities for export will open up.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage Is No Solution Those of us who believe global warming/climate change is real and human-induced can be split into two camps. The first could be described as the "having their cake and eating it" camp; they argue that the technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will allow us to carry on burning fossil fuel but capturing CO2 to prevent it from damaging our habitat.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013Climate Change: Carbon Capture and Storage Is No Solution Those of us who believe global warming/climate change is real and human-induced can be split into two camps. The first could be described as the "having their cake and eating it" camp; they argue that the technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will allow us to carry on burning fossil fuel but capturing CO2 to prevent it from damaging our habitat.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Wasting Food and Hunger Side by Side, Scandalous In the industrialized west we need only a change in the way we think about food to reduce appreciably the waste. In the developing world the problems are more complex, but the west can help and in so doing help our economies.
Friday, April 19, 2013Wasting Food and Hunger Side by Side, Scandalous In the industrialized west we need only a change in the way we think about food to reduce appreciably the waste. In the developing world the problems are more complex, but the west can help and in so doing help our economies.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Cutting the Welfare Safety Net Is Not the Way to 'Make Work Pay' So, there are far better and just ways to tackle the deficit and make work pay than going after the poor and vulnerable in our society. A prime example of that meanness of spirit is the bedroom tax that saves no more than -465m and possibly far less, but will affect 660,000 people, two-thirds of whom are disabled.
Monday, April 8, 2013Cutting the Welfare Safety Net Is Not the Way to 'Make Work Pay' So, there are far better and just ways to tackle the deficit and make work pay than going after the poor and vulnerable in our society. A prime example of that meanness of spirit is the bedroom tax that saves no more than -465m and possibly far less, but will affect 660,000 people, two-thirds of whom are disabled.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Privatizing the National Health Service and Education Are Acts of Vandalism What is it with neoliberal/neoconservative politicians and their ideological obsession with the market? In their view of human nature and public ownership, privatization would magically improve everything. To them, evidence-based decision making is not necessary; they have an ideologically blind belief in the transformative power of markets.
Thursday, February 28, 2013Privatizing the National Health Service and Education Are Acts of Vandalism What is it with neoliberal/neoconservative politicians and their ideological obsession with the market? In their view of human nature and public ownership, privatization would magically improve everything. To them, evidence-based decision making is not necessary; they have an ideologically blind belief in the transformative power of markets.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Global Warming: Doing Nothing or Very Little Is Not an Option The jump in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, combined with the strong correlation between global temperature and CO2, represent overwhelming evidence that global warming is real and it is human-induced.
Friday, February 15, 2013Global Warming: Doing Nothing or Very Little Is Not an Option The jump in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, combined with the strong correlation between global temperature and CO2, represent overwhelming evidence that global warming is real and it is human-induced.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Money, Politics and the Science of Global Warming It is profoundly disturbing that in the case of global warming, its existence, severity and its impact should be part of an individual's ideology instead of scientific evidence. The US matters, and such a distortion of science could have consequences that will affect all of life on earth.
Sunday, February 3, 2013Money, Politics and the Science of Global Warming It is profoundly disturbing that in the case of global warming, its existence, severity and its impact should be part of an individual's ideology instead of scientific evidence. The US matters, and such a distortion of science could have consequences that will affect all of life on earth.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Performance-Related Pay for Teachers Harms Education The emphasis by successive governments on testing and inspections as a means of improving education has harmed real education. It has lowered the morale of our teachers, and has raised the levels of stress and anxiety of our children. Performance-related pay is yet another policy that will add to the stress of an already stressed and demoralized profession.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013Performance-Related Pay for Teachers Harms Education The emphasis by successive governments on testing and inspections as a means of improving education has harmed real education. It has lowered the morale of our teachers, and has raised the levels of stress and anxiety of our children. Performance-related pay is yet another policy that will add to the stress of an already stressed and demoralized profession.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Boom and Bust, Fuelled by Banks for Benefit of Banks One can see that if you want to create a bubble economy that enriches the banks, but starves the wealth-creating sector, you would be hard put to devise a better system. The bursting of the bubble becomes inevitable, leading to the misery and ruin of millions of lives.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013Boom and Bust, Fuelled by Banks for Benefit of Banks One can see that if you want to create a bubble economy that enriches the banks, but starves the wealth-creating sector, you would be hard put to devise a better system. The bursting of the bubble becomes inevitable, leading to the misery and ruin of millions of lives.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Corrupt Capitalism -- the Denial of Equality of Opportunity The report compares twelve developed OECD countries. Britain comes out as the most socially immobile country, followed closely by Italy and USA. Denmark has the best intergenerational social mobility, and the two countries closest to Denmark are Australia and Norway.
Thursday, October 25, 2012Corrupt Capitalism -- the Denial of Equality of Opportunity The report compares twelve developed OECD countries. Britain comes out as the most socially immobile country, followed closely by Italy and USA. Denmark has the best intergenerational social mobility, and the two countries closest to Denmark are Australia and Norway.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Corrupt Capitalism Destroys the Economy and Society Inequality, injustice and grinding poverty lead to the whole of society becoming the poorer; we all lose, rich and poor.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012Corrupt Capitalism Destroys the Economy and Society Inequality, injustice and grinding poverty lead to the whole of society becoming the poorer; we all lose, rich and poor.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Homelessness: the Destruction of Lives The lives of most people are dependent on the modest wages they receive from work to survive and keep a roof over their family's heads. Any interruption of that income due to illness or unemployment of the breadwinner could tip the family into homelessness. Most of us feel "there but for the grace of God go I".
Wednesday, September 26, 2012Homelessness: the Destruction of Lives The lives of most people are dependent on the modest wages they receive from work to survive and keep a roof over their family's heads. Any interruption of that income due to illness or unemployment of the breadwinner could tip the family into homelessness. Most of us feel "there but for the grace of God go I".
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Unemployment, Homelessness, and Debt: the Plight of the Young It is not a good time to be young. Our youth are bearing the brunt of the economic depression and its self-defeating solution of austerity and cuts. The future to them looks bleak; unemployment, debt and homelessness in various combinations, or all three beckon. Of course these three scourges (unemployment-debt-homelessness) are linked.
Friday, September 7, 2012Unemployment, Homelessness, and Debt: the Plight of the Young It is not a good time to be young. Our youth are bearing the brunt of the economic depression and its self-defeating solution of austerity and cuts. The future to them looks bleak; unemployment, debt and homelessness in various combinations, or all three beckon. Of course these three scourges (unemployment-debt-homelessness) are linked.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Prescriptive Math Teaching Impedes Real Understanding Having trashed teaching qualification (QTS) by telling academies that they could appoint teachers without QTS qualifications, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, is at it again, this time telling teachers how to teach mathematics. Whatever next? Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, telling doctors how to treat patients?
Thursday, August 16, 2012Prescriptive Math Teaching Impedes Real Understanding Having trashed teaching qualification (QTS) by telling academies that they could appoint teachers without QTS qualifications, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, is at it again, this time telling teachers how to teach mathematics. Whatever next? Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, telling doctors how to treat patients?
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Education -- Heading to Mediocrity for the Many Would Einstein and Newton have made good teachers of physics and mathematics in a school? I very much doubt it. Being an expert in a particular subject does not necessarily mean you are able to teach it to a class of teenagers; obvious really, but not to Britain's Education Secretary apparently.
Saturday, August 4, 2012Education -- Heading to Mediocrity for the Many Would Einstein and Newton have made good teachers of physics and mathematics in a school? I very much doubt it. Being an expert in a particular subject does not necessarily mean you are able to teach it to a class of teenagers; obvious really, but not to Britain's Education Secretary apparently.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Workers Rights Are Fundamental Human Rights Exploitation and oppression have been with us since the dawn of time, by the strong of the weak, men of women, the rich of the poor. A measure of civilised societies is their effectiveness in mitigating and controlling such unfair and unjust practices.
Thursday, July 26, 2012Workers Rights Are Fundamental Human Rights Exploitation and oppression have been with us since the dawn of time, by the strong of the weak, men of women, the rich of the poor. A measure of civilised societies is their effectiveness in mitigating and controlling such unfair and unjust practices.
