Thepoliticalidealist

LATEST ARTICLES ( 115 )

• A Just Settlement For Afghan Interpreters

  Arguments about the rights and wrongs of the War on Terror have now gone on for over a decade. I don’t think that there will ever be a consensus, in this countr... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• £20,000 Pay Rise For MPs? Ouch…

  It is perhaps inevitable that, where employees can set their own wages, their pay is likely to rise to artificially high levels. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• £20,000 Pay Rise For MPs? Ouch…

  It is perhaps inevitable that, where employees can set their own wages, their pay is likely to rise to artificially high levels. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What If We Can’t Cut Any Further?

  

  By 2015, the austerity programme instituted by the Coalition government (and reluctantly accepted in part by the Labour Party) will have been rolling on for fiv... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• HS2: Still The Way Forward?

  Britain has been neglecting its railways since the time of the Beeching Report half a century ago. Compared to France’s TGV and also Deutsche Bahn, both of whic... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The IRS Scandal: A British Perspective

  In Britain, we have heard little about a major news story in the United States, one that is responsible for a certain degree of political damage for the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Help for Reformed Prisoners

  When it comes to law and order, social liberals often have problems putting forward sensible, evidence-based polices for fear of being dismissed as ‘soft’ on... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Wow! A Fair Change to Welfare*

  *Almost. Like the majority of people I know, I always open the newspaper with a sense of foreboding. What has the Coalition messed up today? Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Lurch to the Right

  

  After the Conservative Party was rocked by the success of UKIP in last week’s local elections, in which they lost majorities on twelve councils, senior figures... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Problems of the Parti Socialiste

  

  François Hollande (Photo credit: photogreuhphies) Francois Hollande has now been the President for France for one year. Looking at the French political scene, i... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Flip Side of Globalisation

  I dedicate this post to a friend who is taking part in a very important meeting today. Earlier this week, I theorised that climate change and the scarcity of... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Greens Hit Out At Unions

  The Green Party, in the style of other protest movements, has spent a good deal of time attacking the uniformity and failures, both real and imagined, of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Falling Behind in the Global Race

  This country is divided into those who insist that globalisation means that the service and industrial sectors of the economy must compete in a race to the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Again

  John Cherry, a Conservative county councillor in Sussex, resigned from both his party and the council after a national scandal surrounding deeply prejudiced... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why, Hyundai?

  Hyundai has landed itself in a heap of bad publicity after launching on online advert in which a man tried to kill himself with the fumes from the firm’s... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Another Disappointment From The Banks

  In the UK, the problems associated with the oligopoly of the ‘Big Five’ firms which dominate the UK banking system are well documented. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Child Poverty: Alive And Kicking

  It came as a surprise to me when I learned that, a very long time ago, all three major British political parties signed up to a target to eliminate child povert... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Shooting Galleries”: Coming Here?

  Brighton and Hove Council is seriously considering the implementation of a range of policies proposed by its independent Drugs Commission, including drug... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The British Shame of Caste Discrimination

  I was aware that the UK Government has difficulty with the concept of equality, but their handling of the Equality Act is beyond a joke. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obama’s Broken Promise

  

  Barack Obama remains very popular in Britain. Though bound by the balance of power in Congress, the need to tackle a large budget deficit, and excessive... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY