AuthorbyHere is a thought that for me won’t go away. If I follow my thoughts on politics, I end up on the left of contemporary debates by political parties, which is were I believe most people end up being. Yet, if we listen to the media talk and look at what has happened in both UK …
AuthorbyThe Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren on YouTube. A very interesting if long video of the crisis that is confronting the middle class within American and by extension our society as it struggles to reconcile the problems of lowering incomes, increasing debt and rising housing costs. On top of that it also …
AuthorbyWhy its Kicking of Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason. I have just finished reading this book from cover to cover and often these days I do not do that as I have got to the point that I seem to know what is being said from reading other sources (books). The subject area …
AuthorbyLiving Wage, why is it important? Why do employers not want to pay a living wage, when it would lead to happier workforces, less retention problems with staff and more money in people’s pockets that would help with with rebalancing the economy and a chance to let the economy recover leading to better social outcomes for …
AuthorbyInequality for All features Robert Reich. This is a film that I would like to get to see. As it talks about things that I have been reading about for quite some time now. This documentary film explores the subjects that I as a social documentary photographer are interested in following.
AuthorbyCapitalism where is it at now? What is it doing for you lately? When I read the newspapers, I feel that I live in a parallel universe to what I see when I am walking the streets of London or when I am at work talking to students about their experiences of life as it is …
AuthorbyObserver Editorial discusses Inequality We need to start doing something about inequality as it is doing it best to damage our society. today the Observer newspaper has a good editorial on this subject that is worth reading. To read this Observer Editorial called “Give the workers a fair deal” follow the link here. Why can’t we …
AuthorbyWe can’t go on like this by Serge Halimi Read this it is rather long and it is interesting discussing how politics and change can happen and get thwarted without organisation that is what has happened in Egypt and in Syria. Change has been hijacked by those able to and interested in pushing their own agenda …
AuthorbyRichard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies. I read the book The Spirt Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (Amazon UK link) and would recommend it to everyone, however if you don’t want to read the book, then at least watch this video.
AuthorbyI have finally made up my mind on what I want to concentrate on with my photography. I had a discussion with a student not so long ago about direction and found myself asking to her, what was it that she read when she went surfing on the internet, what was it that when, she had …
