STOP PRESS - LIBERAL DEMOCRAT BY-ELECTION VICTORY
Liberal Democrats in Windsor & Maidenhead are celebrating another crucial by-election win, gaining a seat from the Conservatives. Labour dropped to last place behind UKIP.
26 Oct 2012
National News
PRIVATE Debt Is the Main Problem
138 years of economic history show that Keen and Minsky are right and the mainstream economists are wrong. "The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a new paper analyzing 138 years of economic history in 14 advanced economies, which proves that high levels of private debt cause severe recessions."
WD
25 Oct 2012
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Henry George is the most famous American popular economist you've never heard of, a 19th century cross between Michael Lewis, Howard Dean and Ron Paul. Progress and Poverty, George's most important book, sold three million copies and was translated into German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew and Mandarin. During his lifetime, George was probably the third best-known American, eclipsed only by Thomas Edison and Mark Twain. He was admired by the foreign luminaries of the age, too -- Leo Tolstoy, Sun-Yat Sen and Albert Einstein, who wrote that "men like Henry George are unfortunately rare. One cannot image a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice." George Bernard Shaw described his own thinking about the political economy as a continuation of the ideas of George, whom he had once heard deliver a speech.
CF
25 Oct 2012
Bus Station Area Regeneration to Include New Surface Car Park
I am pleased to be able to confirm that as part of our regeneration of the bus station area in Bedford Town Centre, we will construct a brand new surface car park to serve the town. The car park, which will be located on the site of the former Gwyn and Patteshull Court blocks of flats, will be constructed next year.
25 Oct 2012
Footpath resurfacing in Lynwood, Folkestone
Kent Highways are to carry out footway surfacing works at Lynwood, Folkestone. These works will involve the replacement of the existing footway surface with a newly constructed bituminous footway. The works are due to take place along Lynwood, between Beech Close and Coniston Road on the south side of the footway.
25 Oct 2012
Road Closure on the A2 near Canterbury
The coastbound A2 will be closed for two nights near Canterbury in Kent for resurfacing.
25 Oct 2012