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2015-02-21 19:17:48 Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’ - NYTimes.com | ||
http://www.nytimes.com/...nventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html?... | ||
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2013-02-09 13:53:44 MPs call for Government to consider ending use of Cloud amid concerns that US authorities can access information - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent | ||
http://www.independent.co.uk/...ess-information-8473693.html | ||
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The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied... | ||
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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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2012-09-28 10:13:13 New Statesman - Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy | ||
http://www.newstatesman.com/...s-cancer-eating-our-democracy | ||
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Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business. | ||
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2014-01-20 10:39:52 Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population | Business | theguardian.com | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...chest-people-half-of-the-world | ||
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The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ... | ||
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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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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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2015-08-18 21:58:20 Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race | Rev. Jesse Jackson | ||
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-as-race_b_7972218.html?... | ||
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The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb... | ||
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2013-03-10 12:29:27 Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In | ||
http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/...dvance-is-being-destroyed/ | ||
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2013-02-10 14:39:17 Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? | ||
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...terity_b_2007552.html?... | ||
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As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... | ||
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2013-12-23 23:54:43 Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? | ||
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...-austerity_b_2007552.html | ||
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As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... | ||
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2014-04-14 09:03:21 Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? | ||
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...-austerity_b_2007552.html | ||
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As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w... | ||
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2017-04-20 08:01:08 Reality Check: Are lower earners bearing the tax burden? - BBC News | ||
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The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden... | ||
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2014-11-23 12:36:19 Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report | Business | The Guardian | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...al-wealth-credit-suisse-report | ||
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2024-03-31 09:27:52 Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena | St Helena | The Guardian | ||
https://www.theguardian.com/...-africans-buried-on-st-helena | ||
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Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were brought on to St Helena from slaving voyages intercepted by the British Navy. About one-third died shortly after and were buried on the island in unmarked graves. | ||
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2023-12-27 07:21:36 Seshat | ||
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Seshat: Global History Databank | ||
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2010-12-27 10:35:24 Stephen Gill - Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Random things that I found interesting | ||
http://sgill.me/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who | ||
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Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ... | ||
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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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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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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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2016-10-17 12:41:41 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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the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and... contrary to all popular belief, including that of most r... | ||
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2013-11-29 18:53:29 Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did | Dean Baker | Comment is free | theguardian.com | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...ology-middle-class-jobs-policy | ||
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A widely held view in elite circles is that the rapid ri... the United States over the last three decades is an unfo... | ||
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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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2017-04-20 08:02:39 The effects of taxes and benefits on household income - Office for National Statistics | ||
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopu.../financialyearending2015 | ||
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The redistribution effects on households of direct and i... and benefits received in cash or kind analysed by househ... changing levels of income inequality over time. | ||
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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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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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2014-09-29 14:53:43 The Price of Bread: Poverty, Purchasing Power, and The Victorian Laborer's Standard of Living | ||
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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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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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2015-03-23 10:26:49 The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian | ||
http://www.theguardian.com/...ment-ministers-cost-cutting-pr | ||
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When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences | ||
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