[OccupySheffield] Age of Anger / Tom Paine's Idea

[Mark Barrett]

And here are two more
1) 4Chan (inc Anonymous) The Skeleton Key to Alt Right / Rise of Trump
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-
rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.ndd44j5zh

2) The English Fix (about the modern history of English identity and our
current anxiety / in three parts)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08crt61
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dn2gn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fdwfq

On 19 February 2017 at 11:04, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> 1) GREAT ANALYSIS BY PANKAJ MISHRA
> age of anger
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fll1l
>
> 2) TAX THE LAND AND PAY EVERYONE AN INCOME FROM THE PROCEEDS
> A good summary of all the arguments for and against Universal Basic
> Income, including its root, as an idea:
> '... basic income is a big idea with a pedigree. It owes its roots to
> Thomas Paine, the 18th-century radical, who in 1797 proposed paying all
> 21-year-olds a £15 grant funded through a tax on landowners. Since then it
> has captured the imagination of many a philosopher, but until the past
> couple of years never gained much political traction beyond the fringes.'
> [Or, as the leader of the Diggers put it 'The Earth is a Common Treasury
> for All' or, better still Psalms 24: 'The Earth is the Lord's, and the
> Fullness Thereof']
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/19/basic-
> income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs?CMP=share_btn_fb
>
>
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