Author: CreativeDeduction

High corporate pay is a matter for shareholder, not think tanks

Friday the 4th of January was "Fat Cat Friday". According to the High Pay Centre, only three days into the new year the average FTSE 100 chief executive would [...]

No, it wasn’t the unions that gave you the weekend

A persistent myth on the left is that it was the unions that were responsible for workers being given the weekend off. After all, if it wasn’t for the class [...]

The Danish song is still ‘a young blond girl’

‘The Danish song is a young blond girl’, wrote the Danish poet Kai Hoffman in 1924, and two years later his famous compatriot, the composer Carl Nielsen, [...]

Rain dance

In December, Katowice in Poland played host to the UN’s latest gathering to discuss climate change, the 24th such summit, and it again ended with talk of [...]

Who’s to blame for high ticket prices?

Another January, another rail fare increase. After a year of disruption, including the chaos around the introduction of the new time tables, [...]

Italy: the next Eurozone crisis looms

In June, when Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League agreed to form the republic’s 61st post-WWII government, a conflict with the [...]

Change we don’t believe in

Change. It’s a political buzzword. Even though there is broad consensus in western countries that the modern, democratic welfare state is the optimal way to [...]

Politics is wrecking civil society

Representative democracy in one form or another has been the norm in Western societies since the post-industrial revolution years. The idea of one man, one [...]

A guide to hate crime

Hate crime has its own brand-new website courtesy of Her Majesty’s Government. On www.hatecrime.campaign.gov.uk we are told how the government has designated [...]

Trump and Brexit: extreme or not?

One of the curious effects of the extreme polarisation of politics in the post-Trump and Brexit era is that people do not only disagree with current policy but [...]