No contest: Capitalism vs socialism
We should celebrate how capitalism has made the poor substantially richer. And we must hope that it is not a lesson our political class forgets entirely
- 19 March 2013
A new Keynesianism in Europe
Europe simply can't afford to implement Keynesianism as an antidote to the current crisis, caused in the first place by debt and out-of-control spending
- 17 May 2012
Accounting for the democratic deficit in Britain: The Bank of England knows no shame
As Europe protests, the UK sleeps. MPs and civil servants lack accountability and it’s our fault. Witness the duck and dive tactics of the Bank of England itself
- 4 May 2012
Why won't capitalists stand up for capitalism?
Our real problem is that unfettered capitalism hasn't recently been tried. So why won't capitalism defend itself?
- 16 March 2012
Noam Chomsky’s half-truths and distortions are still loved by the British Left
The Guardian has given one of its great heroes a platform to spout forth on the decline of American power and the manifold sins of its past, but it’s all subterfuge
- 17 February 2012
A bonfire of capitalists? With a government this big, we never stood a chance
'Capitalism is dead!' comes the cry. The problem is that we have never truly had it
- 13 January 2012
The market’s moral slide?
If the left now thinks there is too much greed, we are entitled to ask why did they do so little to stem it between 1997 and 2011?
- 8 November 2011
CommentatorTV: Occupy LSX - the solution is eco-villages and ‘taking over lands’!
The Commentator team visited Paternoster Square on Wednesday night to speak to the Occupy Movement. Here's what we found
- 4 November 2011
The Tea Party and the Occupy Movement: two sides of the same coin but only the former really gets it.
The Tea Party and the Occupy movement are in many ways working on the same problem from opposite ends. Big government and big, bailout dependent business are just two sides of a corporatist coin.
- 17 October 2011
The '99 percent': looking in all the wrong places.
Nevermind the bankers, we need to look closer to home and at what needs to change within the state system to prevent the real 99 percent from being seriously hit in the near future.
- 17 October 2011
The “Occupy” protests are the third great wave of neo-totalitarian revivalism since the Cold War
The protests against the "system" are spreading from New York to London, Madrid and elsewhere. But the protestors are not just wrong, they’re the enemies of the open society
- 16 October 2011
Guardian columnists are wrong. This is a crisis of social democracy not neo-liberalism
By far the most powerful player in modern western economies is the state. The notion that our lives are being ruined by free markets is simply incompatible with the realities.
- 29 September 2011
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