You've got to admire the cunning of whoever it was that coined the phrase

:D

It's not just the absence of a soul, it's an absence of rational thinking.

Unfettered capitalism benefits a tiny minority at the expense of a coerced majority, as the banking crisis has clearly shown.

Right-wing Economist is an oxymoron, imo.

If you're still a socialist at 50, you've got no brain
Four words: Ken Livingstone
George Galloway
Two socialists whose political development halted before the age of 20.

oh, i dunno, most of the Financial Sector were well past 50 before they signed up to socialist philosophy last October ... still, we're a broad church

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And bugger the rest

Fantastic rational thinking there, Doc. Except that it was the government that did all the coercing. No banks or capitalists ever do any - it's all voluntary. With less government there would be (and would have been) less coercion and no need for the final act of coercion. As usual, government is the problem.

Actually, the original quote is one Winston Churchill, fwiw.

oh, i dunno, most of the Financial Sector were well past 50 before they signed up to socialist philosophy last October ... still, we're a broad church

:), gus.

Goring - in the capitalist utopia that you once advocated (remember those heady pre-bail-out days?), citizens would receive no state support at all if unwell or unwilling to work. Surely this is a form of coercion?

citizens would receive no state support at all if ..... unwilling to work

They don't now.

Dr J 09 Nov 11:42

Goring - in the capitalist utopia that you once advocated (remember those heady pre-bail-out days?), citizens would receive no state support at all if unwell or unwilling to work. Surely this is a form of coercion?

I agree with the first bit, but don't see what you're claiming is the coercion. The bailouts were coercion (of the taxpayer) and would never have happened if government hadn't the powers to put us in that mess in the first place. Having distorted the debt markets, they had little choice but to continue it as therapy.