Politics: Latest articles
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Disguised Jewish supremacy
- If efforts to combat antisemitism are not generic, Jews are being promoted as a special class of people.
- The jobs spin
- When politicians and business leaders talk about creating jobs, activate your spin radar, because they are not likely to be talking about well paying ones.
- Asset-stripping the US
- The Trump administration is overseeing a massive degradation of government services and loss of intrinsic value. Seem familiar?
- Pyramid belief schemes
- We have heard about financial pyramid schemes where they only work while everyone believes in them, collapsing otherwise. However, a lot of what we take for granted has exactly the same fragile basis.
- Elections
- Elections provide an opportunity for citizens to decide who will represent them. To prevent manipulation and undue influence by influential people and groups, elections need to be carefully regulated.
- The stock market
- The stock market is the official way that people provide finance for companies in return for a share of the profits. Speculation destabilises this process.
- Saving capitalism
- Money allows organic social mobility, but when too much focus is placed on it, people suffer and the monetary systems become dysfunctional.
- History
- History is conventionally seen as the record of the deeds of great and influential people. They might be the triggers but they didn't make history.
- YouTube – a creative wasteland
- YouTube is very popular, but it seems to be filled with much dubious content.
- Support Israel = call to violence
- We have seen what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank, and it is more of the same violence that has occurred to the Palestinians since before its founding.