1) Whether you want to call it the liberal project, or simply the creation of a country in which all the people are free and happy and generally not in danger of want or starvation, it has to be fought for and is always in danger. Too many people in the media and elsewhere seem to think, naievely and in ignorance of history, that once we've got a ( Read more... )

So, via the Yorkshire ranter, we find this ( Read more... )

There's an American company called Tribune that produces newspapers, such as the Chicago tribune and the LA times ( Read more... )

that the your average American worker hasn't had a pay rise for 30 years; all the benefits of the last 30 years of growth have gone to a tiny minority. Sure, there are more electronic toys and you can buy a greater variety of cheap clothing, but actual standard of living are not improved ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/resultsRead more... )

You'd think that after decades of being told we have to switch energy supplier that we in the UK might be better at it ( Read more... )

SUrprisingly, if you maximise your business efficiency by treating staff as temporary entities to be put to work only when there is work, or rather your algorithm tells you that there will be work, the staff can't handle it and take days off because their real life outside work gets in the way ( Read more... )

but only sometimes, and not for too long ( Read more... )

You know you're in trouble when they deliver some speeches at a party conference and the tabloids (sun, mail etc) applaud it but the FT wonders how on earth they are going to make it all work out ( Read more... )

On this case it is from a 6 year old blog, possibly even one I have seen before but can't remember.
http://souralba.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/ex-scotsman-editor-on-demise-of-scottish-papers/

This is a lesson that the Scotsman and ( Read more... )