The Tories and housing: A history of violence.

The following was written by Steve Topple | @MrTopple On Monday, the much-maligned “Housing and Planning Bill” gets its second reading in Parliament. While the detail of the bill has been well publicised (extending “Right to Buy” to housing association properties, forcing local authorities to sell off their most valuable stock), the drip-drip of information…

The plutocracy of neoliberal orthodoxy is not the bodyguard of democracy but divisive patronage of profit

The following was written by Paul | @pwmcb    The message is clear, the motive is clear the outcome remains shrouded. This is a short comment on a theme and from the multitude of examples I have scratched the surface of just a few.  Corporate consolidation shrinks rather than diversifies choice Corporate consolidation of markets…

TGIF: That was the week that was… #PigGate

By Political Sift reporter Poppy Gander Sunday As Britons scraped their plates of dripping, The Daily Fail pumped the presses to dish the dirt on Dave. Revenge is best served cold. As cold as a hog’s head fresh out of storage. Monday The story of #Hammeron buried nuts deep in babe is likely a big,…

We are condemned to be free

The following was written by ‘Caratacus’ Clifton1380. Any comments made on this post will be shared with the individual that wrote it, thank you.     Rene Descartes, one of the giants of the Enlightenment, stated ‘cogito ergo sum’ – I think therefore I am. This has been a staple of philosophy ever since and although…

Inherent Neoauthoritarian Tendencies within Contemporary Societal Institutions: An Analysis of Global Governmentality and ‘Leftism’ in Relation to Interpreted Ideological Components of Emerging Policies and Political Figures by Callum Cockbill.

The concept of authoritarianism is typically defined as the manifestation of absolute governmental power within a societal structure, able to exercise control over a population regardless of legitimacy. Within contemporary Western civilisation, the implementation of liberal democracy claims to have eradicated authoritarian politics, as mechanisms including extensive suffrage and regulatory legislation legitimises governmental procedures and…