Ending needless suffering
“When the MMT coin drops and you realise the suffering is gratuitous” Stephanie Kelton In this week’s blog, hunger is on the menu yet again. Gratuitous hunger and hardship. Gratuitous …
Ending needless suffering Read MoreTag: public purpose
Child hunger is an avoidable tragedy
If we cherish a desire for a fairer and more equitable society, then now is the time to ‘Persist until something happens!’ “We must make sure that the government do …
Child hunger is an avoidable tragedy Read MoreOur choices today will define our humanity and our priorities.
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is manmade and can be overcome and …
Our choices today will define our humanity and our priorities. Read MoreWhat is the real burden that the government’s “hard choices” will pass on to future generations?
Instead of more political rhetoric and more of the same orthodox solutions dressed up as change, we need radical progressive action to pave the way for a kinder, more equable …
What is the real burden that the government’s “hard choices” will pass on to future generations? Read MoreStanding at a crossroads in time
‘Democracy is not just a counting up of votes, it is a counting up of actions.’ Howard Zinn Do you remember when Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist at the Bank …
Standing at a crossroads in time Read MoreTime to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci In the week that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced …
Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead. Read MoreThe environmental clock is still ticking onwards
We need a sustainable vision for the future and the political will to deliver it like never before “Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us …
The environmental clock is still ticking onwards Read MoreWhat’s the choice?
Do we accept there is no alternative to our rotten economic system or demand something different? Let’s re-examine our values and use our imaginations to redefine how we work and …
What’s the choice? Read MoreIs the public purse empty?
The government wants you to believe that the public purse is empty and needs replenishing to set the finances straight. It’s not and it doesn’t. Time to challenge the lie …
Is the public purse empty? Read MoreWhile a governmental blame game distracts the public, what democracy we had is being further hollowed out.
Before it’s too late let’s not let the window of opportunity pass us by. The government is us, or it could be. As many of us sit in our living …
While a governmental blame game distracts the public, what democracy we had is being further hollowed out. Read More