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23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism by Professor Ha-Joon Chang is a book well worth reading!

Some people may argue that there is no social-democratic alternative to neo-liberal ideas. However the question should be could you define a free market world? Most markets are propped up by regulations – who can buy what, at what price.

The process of getting a company’s shares onto the stock market is bound by countless regulations. So even though many proponents would claim we have ...

What is the underline principle and relevance of liberty?

A short answer would be life, liberty and property: the right to life, the right to have liberty and the right to hold property. By acquiring property one starts to own yourself. Liberty was first promoted as an economic base in relation to Soviet state communism. The belief was to create an ideology or way of thinking that ran counter to the idea of community ownership. The language of ‘necessary evils’ was ...

Goods, people, capital and services are able to move freely around the economic union with the City of London being a firm believer in the process. One aspect of the union to consider is how the debt is moved around the union as well cleaning up the mess. What do Cyprus, Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Malta, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, France, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, and Greece all have in common? Not only are they all European Union Member States but ...

The mention of the European Union will either provoke outrage, disgust or indifference with the majority of people in the UK. There are active campaigns by Members of the European Parliament (MEP) in the UK to push for a referendum and many others feel that the project should be disbanded altogether. The main argument is that the EU is too expensive and does not work.

One of the leading critics for the EU project is UK Independent Party’s (UKIP) Gerrard Batten ...

Yesterday people came together to march throughout the centre of London for an alternative to the public sector cuts. We can debate whether the cuts are actually needed, who should pay for the deficit and who should be tasked with creating growth. For me, it is a real shame that a credible alternative has not been found and we have resulted to violence in order to get our voices heard.

I had a real dilemma yesterday in being a supporter of ...

Sitting in a brightly lit classroom preparing to watch a film about sex trafficking had me feeling slightly uneasy. As much as I delve into the gritty reality of urban city life and understand the fustration of being poor, being exposed to prostitution is not something that I like looking at. This acknowledgement made me the perfect candidate to open my eyes and see what some girls have to go through in order to please the men in this world.

The ...

Tomorrow I have been invited to attend a Forgiveness project workshop taking place inside one of Her Majesties penal establishments. The idea of the training is to enable prisoners to come into a place of forgiveness. But who should forgive and who should be forgiven?

One of the most damaging aspects in relation to the practical implementation of forgiveness is the enormity of emotion and history. Somebody has done something wrong and they need to put that right. The victim in ...

Here are some of the key points that came out of a lecture entitled: Crises and the unipolar movement with Noam Chomsky. He spoke at the Institute of Education in London in 2009 but his analysis explains the dominance of US control.

We are only here through the efforts of our forebears.

The collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the sole super power in the world. The background in the US provides the right context to understand the world’s ...

Sir Robert Worcester is the founder of MORI polling, also half of the research group Ipsos MORI. He wanted to ask a room filled with journalists and media people “Why does nobody know how to calculate a swing measure but everyone uses that language?”

A swing is the amount of people out of 100 who switch their voting preferences.

A visit to The British Polling Council should be a legal requirement for anybody tasked with explaining voting behaviour.

Some top tips top remember when ...

Jason Grant talks to former City Hall advisor Lee Jasper about community, culture and those financial irregularities

The last year’s Mayoral elections created huge publicity and generated many headlines. Voter turnout was the highest in recent times, with both sides of the political spectrum campaigning hard. One scandal seemed to disgust the London electorate, the allegation that members of Ken Livingstone’s team were using public money to fund organisations linked to them.

The Evening Standard reported that grants worth £2.5 million of ...