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“The United Kingdom has fallen. There has been a right wing coup in this country… . And nobody noticed. We did not notice because it was years in the making. We did not notice because when it came, it came in a blonde wig and a mask of buffoonery.” — Miriam Margolyes

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been around for a long time, with such luminaries as Thomas Paine, Sir Thomas More, Bertrand Russell and Martin Luther King among its proponents. There have been a number of experiments in places as diverse as Finland, India and Namibia so there is a lot of […]

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.” — Julian Assange

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them” — Thomas Jefferson

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor” — Desmond Tutu

“Human beings have a natural right to be stupid, but they sometimes learn that it is better not to exercise the right.” — Leon Trotsky

“’The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci

“People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know.” – Noam Chomsky

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” — Wittgenstein

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B F Skinner