Nick Cohen
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The European countries with the most comprehensive and best quality welfare states all have very broad tax bases as well as universal services - everyone pays in a lot, everyone receives a lot. That is a better model. Trying to shift everything onto "the wealthy" is a destabilising fantasy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The European countries with the most comprehensive and best quality welfare states all have very broad tax bases as well as universal services - everyone pays in a lot, everyone receives a lot. That is a better model. Trying to shift everything onto "the wealthy" is a destabilising fantasy.
Ah but only in billionaires! Middle class Greens will be just fine!
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ah but only in billionaires! Middle class Greens will be just fine!
Reposted by Nick Cohen
I wrote a rather choleric piece about elected Police and Crime Commissioners in 2013.
"This crapulous experiment has failed. It is time to pull the flush".
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-e...
"This crapulous experiment has failed. It is time to pull the flush".
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-e...
An Experiment That Failed
Last November, for the first time in my life, I boycotted a national election. I don't suppose anyone noticed - the polling station didn...
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I wrote a rather choleric piece about elected Police and Crime Commissioners in 2013.
"This crapulous experiment has failed. It is time to pull the flush".
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-e...
"This crapulous experiment has failed. It is time to pull the flush".
gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-e...