We can be heroes
Many of us like the idea of swimming with dolphins and our children having dolphins around to give them the option to swim with them. Patriotism anyone? Most of us …
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Real Gone Cat
What state are we in? Like the cat in Schrödinger’s famous quantum thought experiment we can’t know whether we are dead or alive as we await the writing of definitive …
Real Gone Cat Read MoreDon’t even think about it
We live in a time of perpetual ersatz crises. Discuss in 280 characters. As gamers in the fourth industrial revolution we’re always on the cusp of crisis. You know, the …
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Your house is the rotten heart of the inequality engine
The bloated value of your house(s) is an unearned windfall and a expropriation from others. Think depriving the NHS or poor kids. Yeah, that bad! I know you didn’t plan …
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The revolution will not be linearly extrapolated.
Tomorrow is always more radical than we can realise today. Just ask Lenin. Any truly sustainable path is radically unconventional – politically, socially, economically, financially and environmentally. Relentless entropy seeks …
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Sinking in the klepto- professional reign
Capitalism needs to heal. But mounting greed among the professional classes is choking our post crash recovery. In the run up to the 2008 crisis, financial speculation was large, dominant …
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We seem to be playing a game of political Russian roulette in UK. Place your cross – pull the trigger for a new leader – see what happens. Labour’s pseudo …
A bullet in the chamber of the Commons Read MoreEnlightened liberal seeks similar
Can liberals actually fool all the people all the time? The Outsider writes. Everybody wants to be cool. And liberal sounds like liberation which conjures up freedom and the will …
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