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Andy Burnham’s transport record: Who benefits and who gets left behind? (Iain Donaldson)
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Liberals and the unions: time to talk again (Jack Meredith)
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Andy Burnham’s NHS record: Devolution, delivery and the limits of local power (Iain Donaldson)
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Huge victory for Campaign for Gigi (Tom Morrison)
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Andy Burnham’s record on policing: Success story or missed opportunity? (Iain Donaldson)
The street in Australia named after my great great grandfather
Lib Dems pick Richard Kilpatrick as candidate for the Greater Manchester Mayoral election
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Christmas reading list?
“Small is beautiful” recommended by Shirley Williams, ends unexpectedly with a ‘How To’ quotation from Mao on page 211
“Go to the practical people, he says, and learn from them: then synthesise their experiences into principles and theories: and then return to the practical people and call on them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and achieve freedom and happiness”
Should FCO say this to Beijing?
“Small is beautiful” recommended by Shirley Williams, ends unexpectedly with chapter Seventeen “SOCIALISM” on PAGE 212
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations, and has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest …
The Bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.” (Communist Manifesto)
The strength of the idea of private enterprise lies in its terrifying simplicity. It suggests that the totality of life can be reduced to one aspect – profits. The businessman, as a private individual may still be interested in other aspects of life – perhaps even in goodness, truth and beauty – but as a businessman he concerns himself only with profits.
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It is no accident that successful businessmen are often astonishingly primitive: they live in a world made primitive by this process of reduction. They fit into this simplified version of the world and are satisfied with it. And when the real world occasionally makes its existence known and attempts to force upon their attention a different one of its facets, one not provided for in their philosophy, they tend to become quite helpless and confused. They feel exposed to incalculable dangers and ‘unsound’ forces and freely predict general disaster. As a result, their judgements on actions dictated by a more comprehensive outlook on the meaning and purpose of life are generally quite worthless. It is a foregone conclusion for them that a different scheme of things, a business, for instance, that is not based on private ownership, cannot possibly succeed. If it succeeds all the same, there must be a sinister explanation.