To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century

February 08, 2011

To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century

George Monbiot has just written this piece (link below) for the Guardian and on his own site you can find it with full references. Please do read it as it highlights some of the truly disturbing things the present Con-Dem government is doing behind our backs in the midst of the current financial crisis. Am I angry - you bet I am. We most certainly are not, as Cameron keeps suggesting, "in this together."

To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century

Andrew James Brown

My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with deep sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion/spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Konkokyo, Christian non-theism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free-religious community in Cambridge (UK)