Unemployment – Random Public Journal

July 17, 2018 - TuesdayJuly 18, 2018 - Wednesday Jeggit Mainstream Media, Politics, Scotland

Deconstructing a BBC Bad News Story

The headline, given that most people seeing it don’t read further, has already misguided the public. Fraser will no doubt say he wasn’t responsible for it, but its use of a headcount of “5,000” more seeking work in Scotland inaccurately describes the reality of the figures. In fairness, Fraser does explain that “the rise appeared to be due to more women seeking work, while male unemployment remained the same,” but the damage has been done. Readers have already been misled into believing that the economy is worsening – which is not true.

British Terrorocracy

Governance in Britain has been reduced to a regime of fear, threats, and intimidation. Nothing other than the scale of the operation differentiates this from a mafia-like protection racket. Bad government of this ilk is what’s wrong with the world. The protest vote and the rise of the right are born out of people’s frustration at this carry on.

November 25, 2016 - Friday Jeggit Economics, Politics, Scotland, Society

Universal Basic Income for Scotland

The idea is that we scrap the entire benefits system and give everyone – regardless of their income – a basic annual minimum in cash. In multiple studies the basic income trials have had incredible results.

October 28, 2016 - FridayOctober 30, 2016 - Sunday Jeggit Poverty, Society, United Kingdom, Wealth and Power

State as Power: Britain’s War on the Poor

People subject to state power whose conditions of life dictate that they are not functioning in a manner that serves the imperative of power – earning and paying taxes – are, by default, the enemies of the state.

March 8, 2016 - TuesdayMarch 9, 2016 - Wednesday Jeggit Economics, Politics, Society

Feminisation of the Labour Force as a Tool of Neoliberalism

It is true that globally there has been an increase of women in industry and in all other parts of the market economy. On the surface this change in labour demographics is to be applauded, but women were never offered the same conditions as their male predecessors.

February 21, 2016 - SundayFebruary 22, 2016 - Monday Jeggit Economics, Great Britain, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Society

Scotland in Cameron’s Broken Britain

What is evident, and now beyond all doubt, is that service industry, minimum wage, and zero hour jobs are not paying, and that the promise of ‘trickle-down’ from the thieves in London was yet another Westminster lie.

September 18, 2015 - FridaySeptember 20, 2015 - Sunday Jeggit Education, Ireland

Seeing it through to the End is the Result

Fifty hours does not sound like a long time, but, then all things are relative. Two whole days in a leisure park will always feel much shorter than the same amount of time in a maths class. Our fifty hours, of course, was in the latter, and all of us wished dearly to have been in the former.