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Pluralism has deep roots amongst Jews. The Talmud, the basis of rabbinic law and primary object of Jewish study for 1500 years, is not dogma. It is sixty-three books of debate and disputation, ...
The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) a trade agreement covering 50 countries and more than 68 percent of world trade in services is being drawn up between the EU and the US. The draft agreement was ...
MacKinnon “A successful economy is a no debt economy. ” Hit the nail right on the head. Since 2010 we have relieved the poorest of wealth and impoverished them further and despite Osborne’s QE and ...
David Pavett’s attack on the newly-formed Labour Campaign for Free Movement wrongly argues that support for the right of migrants to freedom of movement is the same as support for the free movement of ...
Says our Tory Troll with the entirely bogus name. Whereas ever increasing numbers of people are seeing the last 30 years of neoliberal capitalism as a rapacious system of market driven robbery of the ...
A new group called the Labour Campaign for Free Movement has been launched. It says that thousands have already signed up to its campaign statement. It is also clearly hoping that the model resolution ...
After the politically stultifying years of Blair/Brown and its aftermath under Miliband, Labour members voted for a left-wing leader in 2015. This was a palace revolution without a changing of the ...
Serious discussions of Social Security policy start from a few fundamental questions. One is the balance between contributions and means-testing as a basis for entitlement, another the balance between ...
For reasons best known to themselves, the National Policy Forum has decided to group culture with energy and environmental policy. Meanwhile transport, which is a significant energy consumer and ...
In contrast to most of the other NPF Policy Commission reports the Economy Report proposals are more reflective of the new “Corbynite” Left Keynesian agenda than the poor quality material it produced ...
The shock of the General Election hasn’t even begun to settle down. Mark Perryman recommends summer reads to help grapple with interesting times. The audacity of hope versus the mendacity of the weak ...
This report by Labour’s Inernational Policy Commission follows the same non-committal, evidence-free, approach that I noted when reviewing the report from the Early Years, Education and Skills ...