What has destroyed every previous civilisation has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power – Henry George (writer and economist) Capitalism is dying out all over…
We all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; decentralising is crucial to both freedom and excellence . – Jerry Brown (then…
I’ve always liked Jeremy Corbyn. He’s been my MP for the 32 years I’ve lived in Islington North. For 10 of those years he lived just a few doors away…
People at present think that five sons are not too many and each son can have five sons also and, before the death of the grandfather, there are already 25…
The way to have a good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it amongst the many – Thomas Jefferson So far, in…
Union gives strength – Aesop What Aesop did not say, but which he certainly knew, was that strength through union brings various costs with it, some less tangible than others…
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public. – W E B Du Bois (American sociologist, historian and civil rights activist) Centralisation is…
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw Shaw was, perhaps, a little on the cynical side but, nevertheless, there is a truth in…
The Fourth Rider of the Apocalypse is mounted on a pale horse; he is pestilence; he is disease. He has wiped out legions, annihilated armies, brought down nations, destroyed empires….
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot (Victorian journalist). The…