Economics
Larry Elliot: To trust each other again, we need to become more equal
The gap between rich and poor has been widening for decades, driving a climate of mistrust that harms us all Read here
Month: October 2018
EU politics
Chris Bambery – The Scottish National Party is getting there – thanks to the Scottish people
We have repeatedly voiced our scepticism concerning the Scottish National Party (SNP) as a progressive party and a force for emancipation. Chris Bambery has decided enough is enough and contributed this piece refuting our concerns […]
Economics
Paul Tucker and Mark Blyth – Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Listen here Watch accompanying talk at the Watson Institute at Brown University: youtu.be/R-Dxrs7dj0w Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. […]
EU politics
The Local de: Google shelves plans to open campus in Berlin Kreuzberg
Although the article could qualify as a puff piece for Google, the message is clear: Google does not like negative publicity and its image of being “cool” has been tarnished. Monopolies are not cool, they […]
Economics
Corporate Human Rights Violations by Stéfanie Khoury and David Whyte
Book review by Mathew D. Rose The term “human rights” has a positive connotation: inalienable rights for everyone, regardless of location, religion, ethnicity or any other qualities. There is one clear anomaly in this system: […]
EU politics
Common Space – Scotland: ‘This is not a fight about party politics’: Women’s equal pay strike rocks Glasgow
WOMEN council workers across Glasgow today began a two-day strike over a pay dispute with Glasgow City Council stretching back 12 years. Read here
Finance
Jacob Weisberg: The Autocracy App
Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate events since the 2016 election, but of its consequences. Read here
Austerity
Jeffrey Sommers – “No People, Big Problem”: Democracy and Its Discontents In Latvia
Jeffrey Summers analyses the recent elections in Latvia. His fazit: The chief lessons from Latvia’s election are that ethnic Russians have not taken over. Their main political party remained stable and saw its support slightly […]
EU politics
Thom Davies, Karolína Augustová, Arshad Isakjee, Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik – The violent reality of the EU border: police brutality in the Balkans
The Croats have a long tradition of lethal intolerance: the Ustaše, important allies of the Germans in World War II, ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslavian war. Being in the EU does not see to have […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms and Peter Newell: We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty – and we need it now
Climate breakdown is an imminent threat to humanity. But an international treaty could avert calamity. Read here