There is no natural law stating that bullies have to dominate our lives.
Category: employment
The Workaround
Without public consultation, the boundaries of freeports have been expanded to cover much of the country. What does this mean?
Revolt of the Robots
How we can find meaning, purpose and pride when the workplace no longer offers them
The Drums of War
The combination of automation, complexity and climate change is dangerous in ways we haven’t even begun to grasp.
Curb Your Malthusiasm
Vilification of the unemployed as scroungers and skivers has a long and grisly heritage.
Work-Force
Surrender your freedom, avoid daylight, live to work, and you too could join a toxic, paranoid elite.
Kleptoremuneration
Theft through excessive rewards: that’s the dominant business model.
Snow Jobs
The employment figures attached to large projects tend to be codswallop.
Union With the Devil
The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.
A Vehicle for Equality
Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?
Too Soft on Crime
The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.
The Flight to India
The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 300 years ago are now returning. Is this a good thing or a bad one?
The Official Opposition
The trades unions need have no fear of flexing their muscles: we now depend on them to fight the government
Wreckers Unite
Labour has become the workers’ enemy. It’s time the unions stopped funding it
The Billion-Dollar Bonus
We Need a Global Maximum Wage
Chained to the Past
The thousands of car workers about to be made redundant are the victims of the policies designed to help them.
Life in the Balance Sheet
Corporations in Britain get away with murder
Slave Labour
Cutting benefits will undermine society
A Nation of Suckers
Why do we believe what the superstores tell us?
Shooting the Messenger
The Health and Safety Executive isn’t working: so instead it tries to silence its critics