Yes, indeed. Piketty regards himself, ultimately, as a defender of capitalism, for instance, and his work on the increasing concentration and feudalisation of quite a sizeable proportion of wealth is… (View Post)

But they largely make up for that by a vastly better-funded public and common realm - which is supported by taxes. (View Post)

Florida is turning into the Twilight Zone of American politics, or some sort of vortex sucking all sorts of other potent irregularities in. (View Post)

We are indeed. One of things that concerns me is that I think figures like Mandelson are far, far from the kind of individuals to take advantage of it, and "catch the tide in the affairs of men&… (View Post)

If you don't have light notes, you need passionate notes. I'm a Milibandite rather than a Corbynite, but he should, for instance, at the present political moment be summoning passion to fig… (View Post)