Sad to see on the BBC this evening that the Israelis are apparently making a point of targetting such 'on the ground' journalists on Southern Lebanon and dropping missiles on them. (View Post)

I don't think either side are committing genocide. To make such claims reduces the concept to a meaningless trigger word. I do believe there are influential elements on both sides who would be h… (View Post)

But clearly with more than a million vacancies, a very large proportion of those being in the very sectors that are most likely to be minimum wage such as hospitality, that point is still quite some … (View Post)

You would prefer tax payer's money being used to subsidise the wage bills of private companies? (View Post)

Indeed. That is my point. I think the minimum wage is a great idea because the alternative is that other tax payers end up subsidising companies who can't be arsed to pay people a decent wage. (View Post)