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In an ideal world
March 1st, 2007Or, at least, in my ideal world: This would be part of a viral anti-marketing campaign, perhaps being waged by this lot. It would be called legitimate resistance. And we’d be winning.
Oh, by the way, you can report problems with your oxygen sensor here. Even if you don’t have a car, apparently.
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Politicians: emoting for England
December 22nd, 2006Merrick wrote here yesterday in defence of the Citizen’s Basic Income. What I find interesting about the non-debate surrounding it is how a policy so close to the mainstream among polbloggers, could be so far from the shores of ordinary politics. Now, it’s easy to psychoanalyse the bloggers, to see what they see in the Basic Income. But why exactly is it ignored everywhere else? Read the rest of this entry »
So, who watches the people we pay to watch the watchers?
November 24th, 2006What’s most fascinating about this lament to socialism perdu is the central thesis:
It is axiomatic, since the death of socialism, that governments must everywhere retreat… Liberalisation, privatisation and global policies of “small government” (except in the areas of defence and law and order) have led to a withdrawal by governments from areas of concern, which, until recently, had been seen as their primary functions.
He’s 180 degrees wrong. In fact, the state is hungrier than it’s ever been. Read the rest of this entry »