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2015-04-26 20:31:33 Sunday Times Rich List: Britain's richest double their wealth in 10 years | Business | The Guardian | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...e-their-wealth-in-10-years?... | ||
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Crisis? What crisis? The 1,000 wealthiest people in the ... £547bn, not counting what’s in their bank accounts, a... latest Sunday Times Rich List | ||
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2014-02-15 11:08:56 Boris Johnson: a pound spent in Croydon more value than a pound spent in Strathclyde | ||
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Current Mayor and Tory candidate Boris Johnson told us: "We're making the case now to central government for more funding. I'm making the argument to the Treasury that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Stra | ||
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2011-09-12 12:34:54 About Full Fact | Full Fact | ||
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Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea... | ||
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2021-07-30 10:03:00 | ||
https://www.linkedin.com/...ond-growth-gaya-branderhorst?... | ||
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Global growth keeps slowing down. ... Sometimes an article will discuss how to kick the economy back into gear. All this takes as given that the economy’s ultimate purpose is growth. But does it need to be? | ||
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2021-07-30 10:00:51 | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...it-study-the-limits-to-growth | ||
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Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civ... | ||
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2016-09-28 21:02:51 Tax Research UK » The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years | ||
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/...ers-over-the-last-70-years/ | ||
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I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele | ||
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2015-04-02 13:29:00 The American people are clueless: Why income inequality is so much worse than we realize - Salon.com | ||
http://www.salon.com/...h_worse_than_we_realize_partner/?... | ||
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In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chri... people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich r... there would be riots in the streets.” The findings of ... published over the last several years inPerspectives on ... Science, su | ||
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2010-06-15 08:59:05 The myth of the structural deficit - Investors Chronicle | ||
http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/...tructural-deficit.jsp | ||
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In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu | ||
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2014-01-09 07:05:04 Benefits Street: a toxic caricature of Britain’s poor | new economics foundation | ||
http://www.neweconomics.org/...c-caricature-of-britains-poor | ||
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In our currently unstable economy, many are finding that... – people are increasingly moving in and out of work, a... support between these brief spells of employment. Even t... are finding it hard to meet the cost of living – a clo... UK’s bene | ||
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2011-08-15 15:12:39 Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest • The Register | ||
http://www.theregister.co.uk/...ce_cut_mobile_phone_service/ | ||
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In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l... | ||
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2015-07-23 17:53:06 | ||
ttps://medium.com/bad-w.../the-servitude-bubble-c9e998c437c6 | ||
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In this essay, I want to offer a competing narrative to the popular but woefully misnamed “sharing economy” (which, of course, isn’t sharing, unless you tell your kids that buying and selling toys from other five year olds is “shari... | ||
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2018-03-04 12:41:35 The Self-Attribution Fallacy – George Monbiot | ||
http://www.monbiot.com/2011.../the-self-attribution-fallacy/ | ||
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Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where th... and brutality. | ||
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2013-10-22 15:22:46 The Nobel Prize in Economics 2013: of the madness and the wisdom of crowds | OECD Insights Blog | ||
http://oecdinsights.org/...madness-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/ | ||
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Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo... | ||
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2014-01-20 10:46:03 Britain is scared to face the real issue – it's all about inequality | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...ty-threat-recovery-poverty-pay | ||
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It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th | ||
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2011-05-09 19:34:54 Guernica / Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death | ||
http://www.guernicamag.com/...oam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/ | ||
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It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim, | ||
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2014-01-04 18:55:59 From cash machines to courgettes, the poor will pay more | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | theguardian.com | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/co.../cash-machines-poor-pay-more | ||
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Lack of access to non-charging cashpoints is just one ex... dice are loaded against poor people in a free market | ||
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2011-08-18 18:12:48 Ben’s Blog - Inside Time Newspaper | ||
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Lifer Ben Gunn’s Prison Blog … the only blog by a se... prisoner which ‘looks stupidity and ignorance in the e... attempting to inject some neurons into the criminologica... | ||
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2012-09-12 22:55:04 CCTV used in more than 200 school toilets - Home News - UK - The Independent | ||
http://www.independent.co.uk/...-school-toilets-8129979.html | ||
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More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today. | ||
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2016-09-14 18:35:45 Thousands die after being declared 'fit for work' - no wonder Tories didn't want anyone to know - Terry Christian - Mirror Online | ||
http://www.mirror.co.uk/...-die-after-being-declared-6348067 | ||
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More than 4,000 people died within six weeks of being fo... work”, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted. | ||
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2013-02-14 07:28:58 Who controls the world? More resources for understanding | ||
http://blog.ted.com/...-visualization-of-the-global-economy/ | ||
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Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had b... the United States and the world for just over a month wh... Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The... Corporate Control” in October 2011. The study was a sc... our global | ||
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2011-05-02 11:16:32 Tweet Library - damon / osamaraidlivetweets | ||
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Osama Raid Live Tweets | ||
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2014-01-10 16:42:35 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness - Crime - UK - The Independent | ||
http://www.independent.co.uk/...on-homelessness-8631665.html | ||
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Police in north London have seized blankets, sleeping ba... donations from rough sleepers in a crackdown on homeless... | ||
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2016-12-27 09:25:00 BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance | ||
http://www.bbc.com/...an-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance | ||
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Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr... | ||
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2010-06-15 09:01:14 National Statistics Online - Public Sector | ||
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Public Sector | ||
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2011-05-09 20:11:24 UK Retail Price Index since 1960 | ||
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Retail Price Index Since 1960 | ||
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2012-12-26 08:26:44 The Real Rationale for the 2nd Amendment, That Right-Wingers Are Totally Ignorant About | Alternet | ||
http://www.alternet.org/...ingers-are-totally-ignorant-about | ||
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Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is drive... false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Secon... they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.... opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have e... | ||
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2013-10-23 21:53:31 Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next | ||
http://www.upworthy.com/...m-and-watch-what-happens-next?g=3 | ||
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Science can explain a lot of things that I've always won... science!). In this case, it explains what I've known for... been unable to quite understand: Why do some folks who h... money than others seem to be less nice and more evil to ... | ||
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2023-12-27 07:21:36 Seshat | ||
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Seshat: Global History Databank | ||
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2017-03-01 23:00:24 Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex | WIRED | ||
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stories in The Guardian and on BuzzFeed revealed that th... of 55,000 was the registered home of at least 100 pro-Tr... of them filled with sensationalist, utterly fake news | ||
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2013-02-09 13:58:56 Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance | James Ball | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk | ||
http://www.guardian.co.uk/com.../welfare-fraud-tax-avoidance | ||
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The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble... | ||
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