Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: The epitaph for Tory austerity has been written, and it’s damning
This is what Brexit is really about, but this has been a hand in hand exercise of the British elite and the EU political class. Read here
Month: November 2018
EU politics
Bloomberg: The French Have Another Reason to Be Angry at Emmanuel Macron
This is probably the only sensible thing Macron has done up to now, but his dirigiste manner has not bothered to convince voters, nor do the additional taxes appear to be destined to improve public […]
Austerity
Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Ana Lara Gómez – Ideology (not economics) explains why the Troika treated Ireland less harshly than Greece
Both Greece and Ireland suffered substantially during the Eurozone crisis, but the two countries’ treatment by the ‘Troika’ of the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission was strikingly different. Drawing on new research, they […]
Austerity
Stavros Mavroudeas – A resurgence of popular mobilisations in Greece
On November 14th, Greece`s largest union, ADEDY, which represents about half a million public sector workers, carried out a one day strike. The union is demanding that the SYRIZA government retracts pay and pension cuts and […]
Economics
Money and Government by Robert Skidelsky
Book review by David Shirreff Robert Skidelsky, acclaimed biographer of Keynes, anatomises an economic and monetary landscape that could be fertile ground for a Keynesian revival There is something seriously wrong with classic economic […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Brexit: What I think Labour should be saying on Europe
During the Brexit debate we have concentrated our coverage on the real cause of the successful referendum: the destructive neo-liberal policy of the EU that has caused so much suffering and misfortune for so many. […]
Climate Crisis
Kevin MacKay – The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis
Kevin MacKay contends that oligarchy has been a more fundamental cause of the collapse of civilisations than social complexity or energy demand. Control by oligarchs, he argues, thwarts rational decision-making, because the short-term interests of […]
Media
Thomas Piketty: « Le Monde » and the billionaires
How to democratise private media? Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – Extinction Rebellion?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Guardian columnist, writer and environmental campaigner George Monbiot to discuss the launch of Extinction Rebellion. What can be done about climate change? Does technology have the answers? Are […]
EU politics
Luke Ming Flanagan: If we are heading for an EU army what does that mean for Irish neutrality?
The EU´s road from a ‘Peace Project’ to a ‘European Defence Union’ has begun. As EU military and defence spending skyrockets, Ireland’s commitment to defence co-operation compromises its neutrality, writes Luke Ming Flanagan, MEP Read […]