Whatever happened to the right's faith in market forces? I ask because of their complaints about "woke capitalism" after Coutts refused Nigel Farage's custom. Farage says: I find it extraordinary that in modern corporate Britain, being seen to be politically...

Stumbling and Mumbling

04.08.2023

Stumbling and Mumbling: The labour shortage "problem"

One of the tricks of bourgeois politics is to blame workers for the systemic failures of capitalism. So it is with the claim that there's a problem with increasing numbers of over-50s being out of the workforce. The Guardian, for...

Stumbling and Mumbling

13.08.2023

Stumbling and Mumbling: Benefits for capitalists

A recent Yougov poll found that most people think that people out of work should not be able to afford smartphones, takeaways, visits to the pub or pets. This is not just evidence of their mean-spiritedness, but also of their...

Stumbling and Mumbling

31.08.2023

Stumbling and Mumbling: Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives

Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. That seems to be the obvious inference...

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