The capitulation by Labour to the austerity and cuts agenda of the Tories and the right wing press has been confirmed by shadow chancellor Ed Balls’ statement that Labour would not be able to reverse the Tory cuts and would maintain the pay freeze within the public sector if they come to power at the

So George has found an argument which he thinks is terribly persuasive. Libertarians, right wing loons generally, face a horrible problem because they believe in property rights. The problem being that pollution affects property so therefore libertarians should be very much against pollution because of property rights but they’re not. In fact, they go all

So, the evil right wing neo-liberal bastards that control the European Union (no, don’t laugh, he’s serious here) are going to make Keynesian economics, leftism, all that is good an holy in democracy, illegal. It’s hard to say what the biggest threat of 2012 is but I’ll nominate one all the same. Andrew Rawnsley celebrates

As I pointed out previously, the Obama Administration is very concerned about its fading support among America's Jews with an election coming up. So they have embarked on a concerted campaign to convince America's Jews that not only is the president the most pro-Israel in history, but that it's those stubborn right wing Jews in Israel who are to blame for the death of the so-called ...

I apologize for covering ground I thoroughly turned over once before, but Professor James Lacey of the Marine Corps War College has offered me a fresh opportunity to comment on rise of clinically significant levels of paranoia among some of our land power friends.  In a post on National Review online, Lacey takes to the e-pages of one of my favorite journals of the vast right wing conspiracy ...

Jeremy Clarkson’s odious comments on the BBC’s The One Show on the public sector strikes should get him the sack. He is a revolting specimen of a man who has made a career out of hurling right wing abuse at the weak and vulnerable in society. However, his vile comments on The One Show are

The new right wing government is going to audit the books. And it’s going to have a good look at the regional and local government books. And the utilities. And it’s going to find that there are billions and billions more debt lying around than anyone has yet owned up to. This much is in

@RichardJMurphy Richard Murphy @obotheclown Public Choice theory, like neoliberalism, is a blackboard fiction of right wing fantasists too frightened to look at reality This from the man who repeatedly tells us that the Tories are only in politics in order to feather their own nests. Doesn’t he actually understand what public choice is? Umm, that

We’ve this musing on public or private provision of public goods. For some reason I was musing on this earlier this morning when well before dawn I was out walking with my dogs and a simple question occurred to me, which was who pays for street lights in the right wing libertarian model of society?

 By now we all know where the ongoing revelations regarding Liam Fox’s relationship with his ‘best man’ and ‘best friend’, Adam Werrity, delivered to us drip by drip courtesy of the Guardian newspaper, are headed. And already it is clear that the defence secretary and one of the more right wing right wing Tory MPs