EU politics
inews: Ed Sheeran paid more in tax last year than both Starbucks and Amazon
Ed Sheeran paid more in tax last year than both Starbucks and Amazon Read here
Year: 2018
EU politics
Griffin Carpenter – The accidental privatisation of marine life
How the way we manage our fisheries is undermining our chances of sustainability Griffin Carpenter is economic modeller specialising in environmental policy and natural resource management. His current work focuses on the socio-economics of European […]
Austerity
Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover
After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy: We don’t need tax to fund the NHS, but we may increase taxes because we do
What Richard Murphy so aptly addresses is a gap in understanding within the British Left (the left of most other nations have no idea of this discussion) of a very simple, but crucial point concerning […]
Energy
Gordon Morgan – Here’s how Scotland can eliminate CO2 emissions by 2045 and help save the world
Gordon Morgan, Energy researcher for Common Weal, looks at what Scotland needs to do to take the IPCC report seriously and decarbonise the country rapidly When you look at a nation being reborn, as is […]
EU politics
Transparency International: EU member states in race to the bottom to sell Golden Visas to the super-rich
This is a product of austerity as cash starved nations turn to criminaltiy to raise cash. The same is true of tax policies and the list goes on. Austerity has failed in the Europe – […]
Climate Crisis
Larry Elliot: Climate change will make the next global crash the worst
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world’s economies now have far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929 Read here
EU politics
Leighton Andrews – Is the tide turning on regulating Facebook and Google?
Facebook and Google are modern utilities – and natural monopolies – so they need a utility regulator. Leighton Andrews is Professor of Public Service Leadership and Innovation at Cardiff Business School, a former Welsh Government […]
Austerity
Ashoka Mody: Why Italy could be facing a disastrous new recession
Even if the Chinese economy merely slows down global trade deceleration will continue and if, in addition, the global trade war escalates, global economic conditions could deteriorate rapidly. Italy will face the ill-effects of a […]
Climate Crisis
Matthew Adams – Individual action won’t achieve 1.5℃ warming – social change is needed, as history shows
Kubko/Shutterstock.com Matthew Adams, University of Brighton Following the 2015 Paris Agreement to hold the global increase in climate to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was asked […]