Saturday, October 17, 2015

Trident: an empty and expensive threat.

Abandoning Trident would be an effective way to move forward in support of non proliferation.

When we look back from a United Kingdom free of nuclear weapons in the future,  we will recognise that Trident in the second decade of the 21st century was no more of a deterrent against nuclear attack than hanging was against murder in the 20th.
Both are inhumane measures that the indecent fear of the loss of votes prevented us from abandoning, long after other countries with more civilised values had moved forward.

I would make several points:
 1. Trident's sole purpose is political not military.
 2. Trident has defied logic as a deterrent ever since the Iraq war and the internet gave conscience a voice.
 3. Trident is a waste of money.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Tory party: Warriors for the dispossessed.

It's the underlying (hidden for the most part) agenda that matters, for no matter what policies are put in place or how they are defended with empty phrases, the end result depends on the philosophy of those framing them.

The Tory philosophy is exclusivity (as opposed to one that is inclusive and considers the whole community).

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Tuition fees

The current system by which we fund university education is one of the more sickening examples of economic sleight of hand.
A large portion of university  degrees are being funded through taxation yet we obscure this fact and at the same time burden students with the illusion of debt.

Natalie Bennett was right when she said that providing further education to young people is a public good,  but we deny this:
while at the same time  most people  (presumably) agree that it is good for the country that more people should go to university, we put unnecessary barriers in the way in the form of an (in most cases) imaginary "loan".