Tomorrow the Tories will try to push through their new Welfare Reform Bill.  Read the story about welfare reform in our new Soundings free-to-download ebook Welfare reform - the dread of things to come Welfare Reform The dread of things to come Edited by Jonathan Rutherford and Sally Davison © Soundings 2012 The contributions to this short ebook have been written in t...

Tomorrow the Welfare Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons. To mark the occasion Soundings journal publishes an ebook ‘Welfare Reform The dread of things to come’. Free download at ]. Contributors: Peter Beresford, Declan Gaffney, Kaliyah Franklin, Steve Griffiths, Sue Marsh, Jonathan Rutherford. Contributors bear witness, employ argument and offer statistical evidence

"The Tragedy of the Euro" deals with the recent monetary history, from the banking crisis to the credit crunch in 2007/8 to the current euro and sovereign debt crises in 2011. Philipp Bagus is a young economist and Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. The Mises Institute has kindly released the booklet on PDF (download). It's assigned reading for all students ...

Under Government plans, NHS patients will be able to download medical history and view their appointments free of charge.

Hey, schlactbummelers, download this: The second case is the Falkland-Malvinas War of 1982.30 This war remains to this date the most classic case between two determined warring nations involvingthe use of sea, air, and ground forces, with long-range expeditions and...

The European Court of Justice issued yesterday (24 November) a historic ruling establishing that member states cannot impose the filtering of the Internet for the purpose of preventing illegal downloads of copyrighted files. More »

I suppose in these days of i-Tunes and downloads, there is no real need to import CDs from across the Atlantic, but there is still something very satisfying in getting a new CD in the post from the USA, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. The brand new release from Sunny Sweeney arrived on my doorstep on Friday,

If you intend to read something today or over the weekend, I highly encourage you to read this transcript from Freakonomics Radio from their story "A Mouse in the Salad." Fair warning, it is a little long, but well worth it all the way to the end. You can also find the podcast download here. It is a very interesting and well told story regarding leadership and crisis management. On Tuesday July 26...

Fun looking book from David Friedman. Explanation here and download here. Some of the Moorish/Iberian techniques and combinations, if not the actual recipes, look familiar from the modern day Algarve. For those seriously into cooking could be fun to try out a dish or two.

The European Commission stands accused of reneging on copyright rules as it is reportedly discussing a private deal to allow companies to disconnect users from the Internet for suspected piracy.