The last of the summer whine
‘The refrain we hear again and again is “We have to be electable.” No one disagrees. But is that actually what’s happening?’
My Life in Fragments, Zygmunt Bauman (edited by Izabela Wagner), Review
Six years after his death, Zygmunt Bauman can still eviscerate – disembowel the claims of others and skin them of their intellectual pretensions.
World population projections: Just little bits of history repeating?
The world population is expected to peak in the summer of 2086. But do the official United Nations estimates give enough consideration to human behaviour?
Scotland is showing us the route to a fairer society
I am not pessimistic when it comes to global trends. But closer to home the statistics are a lot less rosy.
Council Housing: time to Invest (now, more than ever), submission of evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Council Housing
In 2010, the Parliamentary Council Housing Group of MPs and Defend Council Housing (DCH) published “Council Housing: Time to Invest, fair funding, investment and building council housing”.
Growth which makes everyone, not just a few, better off
In 2023, when discussing what might be possible with levelling up, Peter John quoted the July 2021 words of the Prime Minister said a year before he was forced to resign from office
The crises combine: austerity, cost-of-living, public sector jobs and pay
The UK government may be taxing people more (other than the very well off) than it has done in many decades, but