9May

Some more thoughts on the future of socialism. In response to Sabrina Star's revolution within the revolution opinion piece, Violet argues that socialism has always been fighting in a capitalist (specifically, monied) environment.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Freedland sees signs that rampant capitalism is falling apart. The UK has staked much on being the best European emulator of the American model. But if that model is looking jaded, where does that leave us?

Benjamin Barber argues that capitalism is infantilising the entire culture. In rejecting this view, Russell Jacoby actually argues that making things more difficult - the plethora of microscopically-different changes all hewing to the same theme - is capitalism's fundamental flaw.

Change for change's sake

The Interior Ministry (prop: John "Oh fuck not health" Reid) and Lord Chancellor's Office (prop: Charlie Falconer) have been put into a blender overnight. The net result is that most of the day-to-day administration of justice transfers to the Lord Chancellor's Office, which now wants to call itself the Ministry of Justice (prop: Charlie Falconer). The remaining tough-guy bits remain with the rump Interior Ministry (prop: John "Oh fuck not health" Reid), which we suppose will have to get a slightly less uncool name. This may have to wait until the current Minister of the Interior has resigned from the cabinet in the early summer.

Het Grauniad reports on a 2005 plan to shrink the Finance ministry by putting it and the Department of Productivity into a ministerial blender, and allocating the remaining bits between Gordon Brown and whoever is the minister for Trade and Industry this week.

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