Category Archives: Miniplenty
Kicking the crutch
Bankers, the targets for so much vilification, are not usually noted as great philosophers. But perhaps they have been judged unfairly if this observation, by former Deutsche Bank CEO Hilmar Kopper, is true: As a banker, you have no lack … Continue reading
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Tyrants destroy their own freedom
Seeking to rebalance the world and make the major changes needed to bring about financial justice are laudable aims, but rarely achieved easily. Those ‘doing quite nicely, thank you’ out of the current system can hardly be expected to hand … Continue reading
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Occupy everything
At first, like Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, some of us could confess to having had mixed feelings about the Occupy movement. For me, these may have been caused by distance and time difference getting in the way rather than … Continue reading
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Gizza job?
New figures just released show that if you were born in the UK in the last 25 years, you had better hope that you have incredible talents. The jobless total for 16 to 24-year-olds hit a record of 1.02 million … Continue reading
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On repeat
Perhaps this should come as little surprise. A new study has discovered that the popularity of far-right groups is on the rise across Europe, even in the parts previously considered too enlightened to go in for that sort of thing, … Continue reading
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Road to nowhere
For all of those readers who aren’t students of the 1930s – and why wouldn’t you be, given that we seem to be hell-bent on recreating it? – all I can say is, well. Be warned, the last time foreign … Continue reading
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Home strange home
I have been back in the UK for eight days and so far I have been unable to listen to any soundbite or speech by any politician all the way through. It is a sad state of affairs for a … Continue reading
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As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Well, they managed it. Cameron’s Conservatives – no doubt already wearying of the compassionate bit – have their ‘stealing the milk‘ moment. Since Maggie snatched the white stuff from millions of schoolchildren way back when, condemning them to easily snapped … Continue reading
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Let’s push things forward
So if, as Paul Mason observed last month, it really is kicking off everywhere could the UK be about to follow suit? Anger at the proposed round of cuts appears to be building to an extent where even that famous … Continue reading
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Get angry
I know, it’s the weekend. You want to be relaxing, chilling, letting it all go. But you can’t. You have to read this. And then try to find an answer to the question: why is nobody from Wall Street going … Continue reading
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