Media
60 Years Private Eye – Ian Hislop
Editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop sat down with JOE on the magazine’s 60th birthday to discuss Laura Kuenssberg, social media anonymity, and being sued.
Month: November 2021
EU politics
SwissInfo.ch: Greece opens two more holding centres for migrants on islands
Greece opens two more holding centres for migrants on islands – Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic wrote to Greek ministers in May, saying she feared the closed nature of the camps would […]
Economics
Kyodo News: WTO delays ministerial meeting due to COVID variant fears
The World Trade Organization on Friday decided to indefinitely postpone its ministerial meeting set to open next week after Switzerland tightened entry restrictions in response to the emergence of a new coronavirus variant. It would […]
Corruption
Juan Laborda – Cádiz as a symptom: deindustrialisation, delocalisation, rentierism, and a hollowed-out Spain
The Spain that was forged in the 1980s has become an explosive combination in which Cádiz is seen as a symptom and reflection of all this. Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University of […]
Deregulation
Deborah James – What’s at Stake at the World Trade Organisation?
What irony: The WTO Ministerial meeting has been cancelled as a new, virulent strain of COVID, resulting from the lack of vaccines in underdeveloped nations – the handiwork of the WTO – starts to sweep […]
Fake News
Jonathan Cook – The tribal left’s a mirror image of the tribal right
An excellent, thoughtful article on how we are starting to think exactly like those we most abhor Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan Cook’s website […]
National Politics
Robin McAlpine – Scotland: The counter-revolution
The Scottish National Party (SNP) making Scotland fit for EU neo-liberal democracy Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Robin’s Blog RobinMcAlpine.Org Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic […]
Economics
Richard Murphy: There is no such thing as taxpayer’s money
All money is created by the government. Taxpayer’s merely used government created money. Read here
EU politics
Nik de Boer, Jens van ‘t Klooster: The ECB Cannot Ignore its Secondary Mandate
The EU Treaties oblige the European Central Bank to support the broader economic policies in the EU. Yet, the ECB has long ignored this part of its mandate. Read here
Aviation
Hauke Benner – New German Coalition: Climate Progress at a Snail’s Tempo
COP26, the CAP, the EU Recovery Plan, and now this. The EU political elite is committed to “business as usual”, with some innocuous green goodies for its PR-machine. Hauke Benner is a former journalist and […]