Tag Archives: socialism
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Which is more virtuous or effective: Paying Tax or Giving to Charity?
Leave a commentJuly 4, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Rather excitingly, we here at Goldblog Towers received a packed mailbag of responses to yesterday’s blog, particularly the final question …
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Why Corbyn could stay if Labour lose – part 2
Leave a commentMay 9, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The aftermath of the Labour’s landslide General Election defeat in 1983, on the back of a hard left-wing manifesto that one …
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It’s not what was in Jeremy Corbyn’s “Standing to Deliver” plan that matters. It’s where he launched it.
Leave a commentAugust 14, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
It has been almost year since a Labour politician stepped up to a microphone in Scotland without trepidation at the …
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The Blair B*tch project – why New Labour DIDN’T need such large majorities
Leave a commentJanuary 11, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The further away we get from Tony Blair’s Premiership, the harder it is for my students to understand why the …
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£1bn a year in benefit fraud…£34bn a year in uncollected tax – which would you target?
2October 22, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
I was thinking of Anthony Crosland yesterday when the coalition government announced yet another crackdown on benefit fraud. In 1956 the …
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It will be hard to build the Socialist Republic of Scotland if you are relying so much on other peoples’ money
Leave a commentSeptember 10, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith
One of the reasons for the momentum that the “Yes” vote has been gaining has been the switch of allegiances …
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