Thoughts on tax avoidance
Money, they say, makes the world go round. I used to have a pre-conditioned respect for business, and the business of making money. As an avid viewer of The Apprentice, an affiliate marketer, and a...
View ArticleThe need for basic income
I’ve been reading a lot about the idea of basic income recently and the potential it has to alleviate the day to day struggles of the working poor, as well as completely annihilate abject poverty. It...
View ArticleTraversing the debate: Homelessness
“Traversing the debate” is an idea I came up with to try to either challenge or justify a political opinion. We all have ideas about how society should be organised but too often we see the world...
View ArticleAn open letter to estate agents
Hi, I’m 32 and do not have a mortgage. Since 2004 I’ve been renting rooms in shared houses as a student, a “young professional”, and have shared apartments with others as well as lived alone for a...
View ArticleBig state capitalism FTW
When I was in secondary school all the kids were given a paper print out of the timetable for the term ahead. Most got lost, discarded or balled up and lobbed across the room at the earliest...
View ArticleThe aspirational case for basic income
I wrote a post a while ago about the concept of basic income. The post focused on how a universal basic income could be used to alleviate poverty and help people lead happier lives. Really, the article...
View ArticleTrying to understand conspiracy theorists
Wherever you look on the internet – Reddit threads, YouTube videos, Facebook comments or Twitter, you will find them. Identified by their own unique brand of cynicism and often, condescending...
View ArticleThe fight to be human
I just finished reading a book. A very good book. A book about the future. A book about the past. The book is called Inventing the Future, and its focus is on politics, economics and technology. So not...
View ArticleIf a software development team ran the world…
…we’d make more decisions based on evidence Developers tend to look for evidence in helping them to make the most optimal decisions. This means removing bias and leaving opinion at the door (or trying...
View ArticleWant to control immigration? Hate the elites? Vote Labour.
Immigration is a big issue and unfortunately it is one that the right-wing of politics has a grip on much more than the left. In a similar vein, fat cat bankers and rich bureaucrats are not given an...
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