-
RSS Links
Search
Top Posts & Pages
- Brexit Labour (Lexit) Means Lost Futures and Democratic Deficit
- Do Young Momentum Enthusiasts Know That Jeremy Corbyn Really Wants Brexit?
- Brexit: Why we haven't left the Labour Party (yet)
- Stop #Brexit
- Ed Miliband is concerned about immigrant workers; he should also worry about large, wealthy families and dwindling resources
- H.M.Government e-petition on FGM rejected
- Campaigning will shift the climate, to end FGM in Britain
- Age-related sexism: women candidates for council, mayor and commissioner elections?
- FGM is a universal horror, including in Britain
- Regional pay: how to increase the North-South divide and weaken the ConDem coalition?
-
Recent Posts
- Brexit Labour (Lexit) Means Lost Futures and Democratic Deficit
- Do Young Momentum Enthusiasts Know That Jeremy Corbyn Really Wants Brexit?
- Brexit: Why we haven’t left the Labour Party (yet)
- Stop #Brexit
- Ed Miliband is concerned about immigrant workers; he should also worry about large, wealthy families and dwindling resources
- H.M.Government e-petition on FGM rejected
Politika’s Twitterings
- RT @HilaryBurrage: 16 February, tomorrow is the local government by-election in Golders Green, London. If you live there, please be… 1 month ago
- RT @guyverhofstadt: British politicians are far behind public opinion. Making Brexit work is a delusion. Time for pro-Europeans to put… 1 month ago
Tag Cloud
- #Brexit
- #FGM
- #NoFGM
- #RemaIN
- 1980s
- Andrew Lansley
- austerity
- AV (Alternative Vote)
- Big Society
- children
- Coalition
- communities
- ConDems
- Conservative
- crime
- culture
- David Cameron
- David Lammy
- DE-governance
- demography
- disability
- e-petition
- economy
- Ed Miliband
- education
- elections
- equality
- EU referendum
- feminist
- FGM (female genital mutilation)
- FPTP (first past the post)
- George Osborne
- Grant Shapps
- hacking
- health
- herstory
- housing
- incompetence
- infants
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Ken Clarke
- Labour
- Labour Party
- leadership
- legislation
- Liberal Democrat
- Liverpool
- localism
- Lynne Featherstone
- manifesto
- maternity
- matriarch
- misogyny
- morals
- News International
- NHS
- Nick Clegg
- opinion polls
- political defections
- politicians
- poverty
- professionals
- progressive
- public services
- rape
- shroud waving
- single mums
- small state
- Sue Marsh
- Sure Start Children's Centres
- Theresa May
- Victorian
- welfare state
- women
- workforce
Blogroll
- 10:10global.org
- a million small conversations
- A redundant public servant
- Amnesty International
- Centre for Women & Democracy
- Dan Sumners
- Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
- Diary of a civil servant
- Diverse Magazine
- Dreaming Realist
- Fairtrade Foundation
- Fawcett Society
- Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Geek Feminism Blog
- Global Population Speak Out
- GlobalDevelopment
- Green Economics Institute
- Hilary Burrage
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Living with rats
- Missive
- New Start 'your opinion' blog
- No Cuts For Kids
- Operation Black Vote
- Passing Nightmare
- Patrick Butler's Cutsblog
- Politics.co.uk
- ProgressOnline
- Red Brick
- Save the Children
- SocietyGuardian Daily
- Sociology and the Cuts
- Sole Trader PR
- Sustainable Cities Collective
- The Daily Good
- The Economist
- The F-Word
- The FactCheck Blog
- The Glass Hammer
- TheyWorkForYou
- ToUChstone
- Transition Network
- WaterAid
- William Keegan (Observer Economist)
PegRank
Tag Archives: small state
A century so far: will the need for International Women’s Day ever be past?
Today is the one hundredth International Women’s Day. Whilst I can’t speak for the first half of the past century, I recall fairly clearly most of the second half. And strangely – given that my early years were of necessity geographically … Continue reading
Posted in Viewpoint
Tagged austerity, Big Society, economy, feminist, herstory, small state
Leave a comment
Inside Job – the film we (and George Osborne) really, really need to study
We went to see the film Inside Job this evening. A hit at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it was also an Academy nominee for the Best Documentary in 2010. Written and produced by Charles Ferguson, this film demonstrates beyond doubt that the 2008 meltdown … Continue reading
Posted in Viewpoint
Tagged academics, DE-governance, economy, George Osborne, global, Inside Job (film), poverty, small state
1 Comment
Incompetent Conservative Government… or de-governance?
Michael Tomasky of The Guardian, in a recent article entitled ‘Good at theatre, dreadful at governing’, quoted the American scholar Alan Wolfe’s view of conservative (e.g. Republican) politicians: Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class … Continue reading
Posted in Viewpoint
Tagged Big Society, communities, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, government, incompetence, Labour, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, philosophy, small state, social class
2 Comments
A really worrying start to 2011… maybe they just don’t want to learn
Education in England appears to be undergoing not so much a policy review as sporadic and random assault, if recent decisions by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, are any guide to what’s happening. First we have the school sports fiasco (personally … Continue reading
Posted in Viewpoint
Tagged 1980s, austerity, David Cameron, education, health, Michael Gove, small state
Leave a comment
A ‘new culture’ of giving – but what dignity in receiving?
We learn today (29 December 2010) that cash machines are to be one of the delivery points for the Government’s ‘new culture of giving‘. Apparently 8% of the UK population currently ‘gives’ 47% of the cash (wouldn’t it be good … Continue reading
Posted in Viewpoint
Tagged Big Society, charity, culture, donors, nudge, poverty, recipients, small state, Victorian
Leave a comment
Strictly Politically 