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Globe of Splendour: August 2013
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Saturday, 17 August 2013. Capitalism - the long view. The more the world goes to hell, the more the prices of houses in Chelsea and Kensington ascend towards heaven.". I have been thinking about the evolution of capitalism, perhaps spurred by reading the London Review of Books – and having a little time on my hands. Out of this early 16. Century upheaval emerges Merca...
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Globe of Splendour: How to lose an election in the last 2 weeks of the campaign
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Tuesday, 21 April 2015. How to lose an election in the last 2 weeks of the campaign. I hope I am wrong but this right-wing narrative can only increase the Tory vote. What a pathetic excuse for a strategy. Posted by Joe Gill. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. There was an error in this gadget. Rebel Without a Cause.
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Globe of Splendour: June 2015
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Matthew Parrish fails to demolish socialism. Times columnist Matthew Parrish suggests. Socialist economics should be as discredited as believing the earth is flat, AIDS denial and eugenics. It's very easy to take examples of Stalinist central planning, Mao's Great Leap Forward and some of the African socialist experiments to show that there are ...
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Globe of Splendour: May 2015
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Monday, 18 May 2015. Labour's hegemonic paradox: which is the party of working people? Even more seriously, the strategy opened the way for the SNP to defeat and supplant Labour as the leading left-of-centre party in Scotland, while in England UKIP has picked up millions of votes from Labour. The Greens have also benefited from this centrist strategy. In the past, it ...
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Globe of Splendour: January 2014
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Wednesday, 15 January 2014. The Housing bubble and a Dollar crash prediction. I don't truly know if the predictions of a US dollar crash are true, but this comment. Has some internal logic to it:. And yes I'm talking about housing here, please bear with me). Before we return to bonds, where did all this money from QE go? Governments gave it to bankers to gamble on the...
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Globe of Splendour: March 2014
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Tuesday, 25 March 2014. Let's crowdsource our democracy - a mass Parliament of the people. Left of centre thinktanks have told Ed Miliband he should adopt radical devolution. As the theme of his election campaign for 2015. I say let's go further, much further. One of the founding fathers of the United States constitution, explained: “Pure democracy is the most v...
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Globe of Splendour: Why the right can't handle democracy
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Thursday, 23 July 2015. Why the right can't handle democracy. At some point, the leader election system was changed again, with a third of votes going to members, a third to affiliated unions, and a third to Labour MPs. That system put Ed Miliband in charge over his brother, whose Blairite record made him a dead duck for the unions. Then along comes Jeremy Corbyn, squ...
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Globe of Splendour: March 2015
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Saturday, 21 March 2015. Marx and Soviet anti-fascism – a tenuous link. The Soviet role in the war was unique and heroic, but the ‘socialism’ it built bares little relation to Marx’s revolutionary ideas, says Joe Gill. While this was undoubtedly true, it can, in some ways, also be said of Stalin's Soviet Union - officially according to its 1936 constitution, the Sovie...
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Globe of Splendour: Labour's hegemonic paradox: which is the party of working people?
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Investigations of a curious mind. Opinion and observation on a world gone crazy. Joe Gill, journalist and game inventor from Brighton, UK. Monday, 18 May 2015. Labour's hegemonic paradox: which is the party of working people? Even more seriously, the strategy opened the way for the SNP to defeat and supplant Labour as the leading left-of-centre party in Scotland, while in England UKIP has picked up millions of votes from Labour. The Greens have also benefited from this centrist strategy. In the past, it ...
