Zebedee (@revisesociology) - Political Hive

Zebedee

The Valley of Pleasure

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21 days ago

The ECHR: Can Britain Leave? UKIP and many conservatives want Britain should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This debate used to be the preserve of lawyers, but now the…

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27 days ago

The Big State is Back — It's just Right Wing Now! Neoliberals have always bemoaned big government, and the neoliberal promise has been that governments would shrink and markets would rule. But under Donald Trump we have seen the…

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28 days ago

Is Britain on track for an IMF bailout...? As the UK's public finances worsen and economic growth falters, some economists are warning that Britain may once again be on the path to an International Monetary Fund…

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about 1 month ago

Britain's Going to the Dogs! Britain is well known to being a nation of dog lovers, but in recent years our love affair with dogs has reached unprecedented levels. Obviously people love their dogs, they…

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about 1 month ago

The Lords: An Underrated Check on Power...? OK, OK I am NOT a fan of ascribed status, and so those hereditary peers in the House of Lords should just basically be sacked. Along with said Hereditary peers, the medieval…

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about 1 month ago

Careful now... Amazon may be listening...! I remember when I was in Portugal a few years back, a friend of mine being suspicious of SIRI listening in to her conversations, based on her getting served adverts relevant to a…

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about 2 months ago

The UK’s Spending Dilemma – Is Austerity the Only Answer? The UK government is certainly in a pickle, and not a splinterland's style yaba pickle, but rather a particular pickle of UK citizens expecting a certain level of public services…

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about 2 months ago

Why Thames Water is Headed for Special Administration Thames Water supplies about 16 million customers in the Thames Valley and London, and it is deep in financial trouble. Its debt has swollen to somewhere between a staggering £18…

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2 months ago

Is Vaping a New Gateway to Smoking...? Smoking levels in Britain have plummeted in the last century. In 1974, nearly a third of 16-year-olds were smokers, but by 2018 that figure had fallen to 2.5%. That is a huge…

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2 months ago

Is Britain Really In Decline, or just Adjusting...?!? There would seem to be a dominant narrative around that Britain is in decline and that only a RADICAL shake up can shift the nation's downward trajectory, but could it be that…

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