Category: Politics
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Don’t Confuse Voting With Politics
On a recent anti-austerity rally in Norwich, some of the protesters had posters saying ‘Get The Tories Out!’. It was good in one way – […]
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Katie Hopkins – al Qaeda’s ‘Useful Idiot’
Katie Hopkins recent comments about refugees have definitely increased racial hatred – not against the refugees but against us. This post is not about the […]
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Election Debate – The EU
There is quite a bit you can say about the EU. In fact, it is one of the centre of the policy of some parties. […]
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Election Debate – Is There A Green Alternative
While this is a criticism of the Green Party I am not singling it out because it is worse than other parties but because it […]
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Election Debate – Debt
I had just gathered a few graphics and was about to write this post when I was alerted to a post by Simon Wren-Lewis1 which […]
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Human Rights, Worker Rights and the EU
In my previous post I noted a few things about the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights. In this post I […]
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David Cameron, Human Rights Act and Freedom Speech
In my last post I talked a bit about ‘humanitarian war’. In this post I want to make a few points about how this foreign […]
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Iraq / Syria – Humanitarian War?
“There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented … […]
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Iraq / Syria background
It is disappointing that many comments on the current situation in Iraq and Syria, including many made by those in the ‘peace movement’ and ‘the […]
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Putting Thugs In Control
From the media and the announcements of various politicians, it is easy to see large areas of Syria and Iraq as being populated only by […]
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MP Response to Gaza Question
Dear Mr Lux, Thank you for your email of 5th August about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I am grateful to you for expressing your concerns on […]
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The Equality Trust Wealth Tracker 2014
http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/TET%20Wealth%20Report%202014.pdf
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The Problems In Ukraine
The image on the right shows the voting pattern for the 2012 Ukrainian elections. The blue is for the ‘Party of Regions’ and the magenta […]
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Deterrence: Terrorists
Firstly, it is important to point out that nuclear weapons are terror weapons. They have limited military value and are design to kill large numbers […]
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Nuclear Deterrence: Cuban Missile Crisis
I am not going to give a full account of the crisis, since it has been detailed elsewhere1. However, I would like to point out […]
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Nuclear Weapons: Ending The War With Japan
Ending The War With Japan First of all some pictures: You may think that these are pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, they are Tokyo […]
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Nuclear Weapons: Keeping the peace for 60 years?
One of the arguments for nuclear weapons is that they have ‘kept the peace’ for the last 60 years. Deterring an event is not the […]
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Witch Burning and Nuclear Deterrence
This is the first in a series of posts about nuclear deterrence. Although there are records of witch burning in Europe since very early, there […]
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Odd Socks And The Dangers Of Nuclear Proliferation
Before talking about nuclear proliferation I am going to explain a concept which people may have covered at school – odd socks in a drawer. […]
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