Monthly Archives: October 2013

All of this furore about the UK Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the government’s “back-to-work” schemes and its decision that the unemployed were not being given enough information on sanctions for people on jobseekers allowance who refuse jobs … Continue reading →

“There came boom and bust, bankruptcy, depression.  Great public thieves came along and picked the pockets of everyone who had a pocket.”  John Steinbeck about the year 1900 in East of Eden (1952) Nothing changes if nothing changes, and if … Continue reading →

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai showed his gratitude a couple of days ago.  This ineffective and unreliable President who owes his very placement to George W Bush, whose US government was his puppet master, is now saying that the entire NATO operation … Continue reading →