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Bulletins from the Ministry of Plenty

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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Pocket-picking time again

They say everyone has 20:20 hindsight, but with each new report that is released it becomes clear that the only sensible response to the financial crisis that began in 2007 is: are you taking the piss? Because it is increasingly … Continue reading

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The art of surprise

The only surprise is that people seem to be surprised. This is probably the third time in living memory, after all, that the Conservative Party has effectively told the poorer parts of the UK to fuck off and die, preferably … Continue reading

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Toerags unite!

If you haven’t read The Road to Wigan Pier yet, now might be a good time to add it to your reading list.  It isn’t just a searing indictment of everything that had gone wrong in the economic policies of … Continue reading

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Building a dream

Diane Abbott called it right.  According to Paul Waugh on Twitter: As well they might.  But do not be mistaken, although Liberal Democrats with narrow majorities over Labour MPs will be rueing the day they lined up for such a … Continue reading

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How much??!

They spent over three hundred grand on the CPS website. Julia spent the square root of feck all on ten minutes hate.  Which one do we think looks better? Think I might change tack and start tendering for government IT … Continue reading

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They still don’t get it

The first scalp of the new government was claimed by the media over the weekend and, surprising all those who were betting on Vince Cable being the first to walk, it was rising star David Laws who got the push. … Continue reading

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We’ve been here before

A short musical interlude for all ten minutes hate readers who don’t remember what this was like last time around. Listen carefully, this could be valuable survival advice: And if things get really tough, there is always this beauty: Good … Continue reading

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A good election to lose

There are still whole weeks to go and already my main thought when I consider the election is: make it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stopmake it stop Slightly more than a week … Continue reading

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Some animals are more equal

Just when I thought all the residual anger I could muster had been squeezed from the MPs expenses scandal, along came some of our ever-so-unHonourable Members to remind me that I am still angry enough to head down to Westminster with some … Continue reading

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