Reminder that the USA has been in danger of a fascist takeover before, in 1933 when a lot of rich businessmen were running scared of the Roosevelt reforms ( Read more... )

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/13/a4e-terminates-prisoner-education-training-contract

The welfare-to-work provider A4e has prematurely pulled out of a £17m contract to deliver education and training to ( Read more... )

One of the things simply not communicated is what the Tory cuts mean on the ground. In prisons, it means stuff like losing so many staff in the last 4 years that they can't operate properly or safely ( Read more... )

http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/finance/serco-to-withdraw-from-uk-clinical-services-market/5073892.article#
(Not that I've got access but a blog helpfully copied some of it over)

Outsourcing giant Serco has announced ( Read more... )

Take for instance this:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-08-04/silicon-valley-can-solve-the-big-problems

As I listened, I started to miss my own high-school gang. I was feeling more and more depressed, when suddenly I ( Read more... )

You'll have heard of Spiked, a libertarian minded pro-business, anti-government, BBC, socialist, environmentalist media organisation? They are rather irritating, often because they have a good point buried in a load of verbiage and stupidity, as well as their extremely biased outlook. (Their coverage of global warming is execrable ( Read more... )

That has become more clear to me by noticing firstly, the IEA banner at the top, about the flaws in 'evidence based' policy. Actually, as a lefty, I know there's plenty of flaws in evidence based policy, intrinsically involved as it is in managerialism, but the IEA is a political pressure group, sorry, a think tank, devoted to being unpleasant to ( Read more... )

http://www.allmediascotland.com/press/61066/the-media-in-figures-scots-regional-newspaper-circulations-part-one/Read more... )

http://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/the-british-economys-long-bath/

Put plainly, what it shows is that the recovery of the employment rate to previous levels has been driven entirely by growth in numbers of people ( Read more... )

Firstly, the UK economic recovery is not as clearcut as the media tell you ( Read more... )