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There is usually always a ruling elite benefitting from a life of luxury, I’m not sure there is any political system that wouldn’t have that heirachy. It’s how influential they can be in the face of change that I think their true intentions become clear. When an electorate makes a choice that...

Undoubtedly there are, bans and censorship are the lingua franca of mainstream politicians these days.......a reactionary ban is the first tool reached for in respect of exceptional events.

Jeez, if the swapping of insults is what results in bans I would have thought this place would be empty, your post 151 is a case in point. This thread had not descended into personal insults up until that point.......

This “proposed idyll” is actually reality...... http://www.myersclark.co.uk/blog-post/60-tax-rate-club Unless you think income tax should be above 60% for some high earners........under a Tory regime too, out Corbyning Corbyn!

The consequences are the same. Millions died under Stalin and Mao. Millions died under Hitler and nationalist Japan.

I have been “removed from discussion” on the Brexit and Trump threads for over a year, no one ever told me either. I’m not sore about it as this site is not a genuinely public concern, if the mods or anyone else want to restrict my access to threads to maintain an underlying policy I am cool...

This dynamic is as old as the hills. Again casting back a view from history, (post 1793 France) the left (radicals) agitated violently and politically for change, but when opportunity knocked they couldn’t really agree on how much. Eventually they formed a committee (the committee for public...

Before we get to this analysis we should re-calibrate our assessment of left and right wing. The genesis of the left and the right is from the aftermath of the French Revolution and the people’s assembly. The radicals sat on the left and the establishment on the right. On this basis, for...