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Because in an unregulated free market wealth and power inevitably accumulate in fewer and fewer hands and economies collapse. This is...

No a continuous program of redistribution - what goes around comes around. This is what we have already but just not efficiently run...

I call it one in four enjoying the leisure that an industrialised world should be providing after so many years of tech advance and...

To take money from where it is not needed to where it is.

twas ever thus. Cheap goods through increased productivity or imports means less pressure on wages but fewer jobs. This has been the...

Causes are many and various but in so far as a problem could be rectified by more money then looking to the rich is simple logic. Higher...

I realise this thread is about Trump not U.K. However the weaponisation of immigrants is exactly the same. Trump voters: “they are...

TBH I think it is a very healthy process and these things need to be discussed. It helps get oneself better informed for a start, which...

The blind or stupid might not have noticed that we now have much less influence on any European initiatives in whatever direction they...

Sounds like a lucky escape! Trouble with a vertical tank is that the burning area of the sawdust is limited to the small cross section...

I have had the R2 for a couple of years in my workshop, now on its second flue. Burning sawdust is no problem as long as you use it to...

Maybe materialism, more often just sheer need, particularly for essentials such as housing purchase or rent. It's the exploitation of...

I suppose that the illegal and, sometimes, violent actions of the Israeli settlers, supported by the government, didn't have any bearing...

The Israeli government use that antisemitic cry whenever somebody criticises their actions; an attempt to deflect their guilt, no doubt...

Voting for 14 years of Tories is a perfect example. The phrase “uncontrolled immigration” is a frequently used phrase. It doesn’t how...