recently exposed as only interested in feathering their own nest in the most despicably selfish of ways. Some Labour MP's, however, are now beginning to pick up on Phillip Blond's ideas but there is nobody strong and popular enough holding these beliefs who is likely to force a leadership change before the general election. It may well be a very long time before distributist ideas get translated into power in the UK but inevitably they will because of the likely continuing hollowing out of the British economy. With respect to corporate power, identifying the myth of economies of scale is important, as is identifying the myriad forms of subsidies. Another element to examine is the corporate charter itself. Corporations are designed to limit risk in order to attract investment. If you change the level of risk associated with that investment you will limit the power of a corporation without necessarily increasing the size of government. Now that we have identified corporations that are "too big to fail", we have guaranteed those investments in perpetuity. This represents a quantum leap in corporate power that will lead to increased tyranny that can only be battled with ever larger government and yet more tyranny. I am not saying do away with corporations, I am saying is that there is a way to limit corporate power without ever increasing regulation of the market. Bruce, Phillip has set up his own think tank in the last week or so, ResPublica. He does not as yet