Over the past few years I have run a gamut of feelings about neoliberalism, anger, rage, despondency, futility, vengefulness, hatred, but lately all that has congealed and what I feel more than anything else is a virulent hatred for the appalling reality of the casual deaths neoliberalism not only takes for granted, but which is […]
Tag: Naomi Klein
The unholy cult of Milton Friedman and the destruction of Britain
In her book, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein names the holy trinity of neoliberalism and Friedman economics – The elimination of the public sphere, total liberation for corporations and skeletal social spending. Everything that has happened in Britain since the bankers crashed the global economy in 2008 comes down to those three fundamental principles which […]
The need to get people radically living, not dying
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,001 Sunday 15 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, We have a fundamental problem in this country which, unless it is addressed, is going to lead to untold suffering and misery for decades to come. At the heart of Conservatism is a core ideological principle which Naomi Klein, […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 