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Month: January 2016

Big Brother Freedoms Privacy Secret State UK

Police speak to boy, 10, due to spelling error

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/20/i-live-in-a-terrorist-house-police-speak-to-muslim-boy-10-over-spelling-error As a result, the child was interviewed on 7 December by police and the authorities examined a laptop found at his family home. His family has since demanded the school and police apologise, according to the BBC. A cousin of the boy, who has not been named to protect his identity, said his relatives initially […]

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Big Business Economy

Capitalism vs Markets

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They are, in fact, two different things: capitalism is a system of ownership; markets a method of exchange. Although the two have sometimes gone together, this need not be so. Crony capitalism in which a few monopolies or cartels run much of the economy gives us capitalism without markets. And market socialism would give us […]

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Cycling

Cycling in 2015

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I started 2015 having made a decision that I didn’t need the car anymore, but felt I needed to prove it. So, 12 months later, I’ve covered approximately 2,170 kilometres by bike to and from work, plus another 600 or so doing all those little trips to the shop, park, doctors and so on. Basically, […]

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