Doing it all again: why I’m striking tomorrow

Today I was told by a friend that, as a public sector worker, I’m part of a ‘bloated, inefficient mess’. I thought hard, but struggled to see the relevance of his point, when considering the record performance of the small but high-profile part of the civil service I work for. Despite only having a workforce

The crushing brutality of the new state

Crowds of people ‘celebrate’ the coming of the Big Society  Yesterday afternoon George Osborne announced the biggest cuts in public spending in 80 years. In a systematically crude and overtly political move, Osborne sought to rewrite the chapter of history book which covered the banking crisis, which forced governments all around the world back