Jack Thurston

Month: December, 2006

As the rich get richer…

Nick Cohen writes in The Observer about the unwillingness of the British government to do something about tax avoidance by the super-rich, which he sees as “debauching British society”. Meanwhile new figures from the TUC show that since 2000 the pay of company executives has increased 17 times faster than average pay. It is true [...]

RIP GFOS

Will twelve days be long enough to mourn the passing of James Brown, Soul Brother Number One, the original Funky President, the Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk, the Godfather of Soul, who left this world on Christmas Day?