If you haven't read The Spirit Level, which laid out in stark statistical detail the facts about inequality (including the revelation that inequality is bad for the winners as well as the losers) you really should. If you prefer your forensic analysis on screen, go and see The Divide, the movie of the book. I'm going to try arranging a screening at my university if local cinemas aren't showing it.
It certainly promises to be very different from Anomalisa, the film I saw last night (odd, very funny, very dark).
I have one more meeting today then I'm free for the weekend – other than a local Labour Party dinner with Jeremy Corbyn as the guest speaker. It promises to be very interesting. My local MP is a shadow minister and is working diligently and intelligently on a range of serious things: I don't think you could call him a Corbynite but clearly he's refusing to get involved in any of the sectarian bickering. The neighbouring Labour MPs, however, are behaving rather differently…
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Yes, point taken, Vole! I'm a "rejoiner", twenty-odd years after Nellist's expulsion was the catalyst for my resignation. It was a pleasant surprise to wake up recently to fund I was on first-name terms with the shadow chancellor, whom I knew from my days as an AUT rep at Brunel and a PCC member at Hayes parish church. I'm a bit disappointed at the way in which Ms R and Mr M have sent all their toys hurtling out of the Dark Place Labour pram.....
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