Nany-state scheme would cost shoppers £4.8billion a year according to John O’Connell head of the Taxpayer’s alliance who said “ This is yet another case of middle-class meddling that will hit the poorest families hardest”. The processed food market is valued £200 billion and the food and drink service sector is close to 70 billion.…
Ciaran Thapar, a youth worker in South London, highlights the sharp end of Britain’s serious life of youth violence epidemic which the media turns into statistics of knife crime. At the secondary school in Elephant and Castle, a vulnerable, pitiful boy named Freddie is permanently excluded, after being threatened he brought a bread knife to…
Jan-Werner Muller, political philosopher and a German teaching history and political philosophy for Princeton University, in his latest Democracy Rules, gives a brisk account about the state of liberal democracy. As the cold war ended the hopes for democracy’s rapid spread to non-democracies dwindled. Concern for its health grew amid backsliding in existing democracies notably …
Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single…
“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED WRITER AND POET – SALLY EVANS Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of Poetry Scotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated…
Jair Bolsonaro, is a low profile congressman for decades, former soldier and Army captain surprisingly won the 2018 Brazilian election, as the rise and rule of his nationalist, pro-business chauvinist, environmentally sceptical administration. The divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro’s tens of millions of social media followers. Bolsonaro promised simple…
Even before the advent of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck, as it had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly , the environment crisis. Taking inspirations from the “Moonshot” programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, influential thinker…
Growth stagnant, inequality rising , Crisis seems to follow crisis, the environment is suffering and Covid-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted…
In the aftermath of World War One and Spanish pandemic left many looking to live their lives in new ways after unprecedented scale of the destruction in the battlefield and then closer to home. From the Reformation to the American Independence to the aftermath of the Second World War, experiments in Utopianism have arisen during…