The things themselves
The NHS has been entrusted to Jeremy Hunt, the man with an expressed desire to get stuck in to ‘denationalising the provision of health care in Britain’. The many ardent defenders of comprehensive at-point-of-need healthcare are suspicious (to put it gently) of the ability of the profit-pursuit to make ethical judgement calls, provide real value [...]
The New Spirit of Capitalism
or, how we are continually persuaded to participate in the ridiculous I have started reading The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello and will attempt a too-brief summary and pick out a few points I noted. It is an analysis of the relationship of capitalism with the critique of it, and a [...]
I speak as me
Authenticity and the corporate voice I was on a train recently – a now familiar weekend experience – and I was left in a state of mild glee by a ticket inspector who relayed her initial announcements in a motherly, slightly patronising tone, dotted with casual and not unamusing asides. I had a similar shock [...]