Via Michael Roberts The continuing scandal of child poverty in the UK - which is accelerating. A new report by former UK PM Gordon Brown . “• One million children trying to sleep tonight without a bed of their own. • Two million boys and girls waking up in homes that do not have working washing machines cookers or fridges, never enjoying fresh or hot food, and without soap, shampoo and basic hygiene goods. • Three million forced to skip breakfast or other meals because there is no food in the house. • More than four million children officially registered as poor even on the government’s own estimates and based on its chosen definition of what constitutes poverty. With UK child poverty increasing by over 20 per cent in the past decade our country has seen the biggest increase of all the European countries – and, indeed, all advanced economies.” What's Brown's answer? End the two-child benefit gap; provide incentives for 'philanthropy' and tax gambling profits. These are...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51