Economics
Larry Elliot: Corbyn’s Build it in Britain plan isn’t radical – it’s what other countries do
‘Value for money’ for public contracts is a colossal failure. Labour’s leader is right: the state should support manufacturing Read here
Month: July 2018
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – How the EU has become an incubator for fascism
What no one is considering is that the resurrection of fascism in the EU could well be a logical consequence of the EU’s policies of the past decades, actually stabilising the European Union and allowing […]
Climate Crisis
Business Green: Is climate change causing the heat wave? To all intents and purposes, yes
Climate attribution is complicated, but an abundance of caution that is not applied to any other field is serving to underplay the huge risks presented by climate change Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – The right answer to ‘How are you going to pay for it?’
A short, but good piece on how small government ideology is dressed up to look erudite, but in the end is simply neo-liberal trope. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City […]
Austerity
Tax Justice Network – A firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby
In the July 2018 Taxcast: we look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby: we look at a new report from […]
EU politics
New Economics Foundation – The rise of the data oligarchs
There are troubling signs that the new data-driven economy is inheriting all the same problems as the old one: power imbalances, monopolies and a lack of accountability. Listen here
Economics
Politics Theory Other – Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy
Grace Blakeley joins Politics Theory Others to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK’s current account deficit, and how we can wrest control away from the […]
Economics
Douglas Rushkoff: How tech’s richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Is this madness or simply the ultimate indivdualistic solution to a communal problem? Read here
EU politics
The National: Salmond slams EU leaders over Spanish state’s violence in Catalonia
There are still those who speak truth to the EU´s political elite. Thelinked speech is well worth reading. Read here
EU politics
German Foreign Policy – Libya: Europe’s Deputy Sheriffs
The EU policy of “Pretend and Defend” with regard to Libya`s coastguard continues. This is a criminal gang, which the EU is portraying as an efficient military institution. There has been no end of reporting […]