When asked of her proudest achievement in government Margaret Thatcher said, wryly, and accurately one assumes, "New Labour." She changed the mood music of UK PLC under her watch, and in these times of neo-liberal ascendancy that Thatcher beckoned in, neither Labour nor the Tories will introduce a Hollande style higher income tax bracket so that those who can afford it most contribute more to public finances through their income. 

In January 2013 journalist Peter Oborne wrote an article in The Daily Telegraph about cricket commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins. In it he claimed that “the passing of the inspirational amateur leaves us all the poorer”.

Democracy will not work in a jurisdiction where the majority of the electorate lack education, a minimum moral standard, and a sense of citizenship. How can the raw capitalist spirit be tempered to produce sustainability and a great democracy?

No More Business as Usual...  Ross Ashcroft gives the 2012 keynote for the Renegade Economist Winter Series.

Practically the entire world is under control of powerful money interests, whether they be Chinese, Russian, European, American or other oligarchs or trans national organizations. This has not always been the case.

The PICNIC 2012 series. We speak to Daan about claiming his space between autonomy and interaction, beauty and bullshit and soft & hard capital of art.

With right wing jingoism, heroic acts and a whiff of British nostalgia who needs strategy? 

I dreamed about a movement like Occupy Wall St. starting in America when I first became aware of the youth uprising in Egypt. I knew it was only a matter of time before it eventually landed here in America.

Economic destruction and inept Baby-Boomer leadership will empower a generation to step up and assume the virtues necessary to establish a more agreeable and inclusive society.     

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson explains the danger of money printing when leaders don't know the consequences.