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I'm so tired of this argument. Whenever I point out how depressing the employment situation is, including the stagnation and then the decline in real incomes since the early 1970s, the growth of precarious employment, outsourcing, etc. this is a response… more »

All sorts of jiggery-pokery is going down in Bangkok. Obviously things are not well in Thailand, and if this crackdown succeeds the government will probably be too complacent to address the root causes. I was in the Philippines when the 2006 coup occurre… more »

This is pretty disgusting. Before the strike even started, the British High Court granted an injunction and forbade BA cabin crew to strike based on some technicality. I will say these things:1. Isn't it interesting how news stories about strikes alway… more »

Middlesex University is phasing out its philosophy program, to the outrage of many academics. I believe the problem is because the department is not revenue-generating, and because universities lately are ever-more concerned with churning out MBAs, lawye… more »

I did. I said that the media would quickly forget about it, and they have. This is the first news story I've seen about Haiti in weeks, and its chief concern is to tell the story of Haitians who are still struggling because aid has diminished or passed t… more »