Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Natural climate solutions – code for financialisation of nature and profits for capital
McKinsey and The World Economic Forum – What can go wrong (for the 1%)? Read here
Month: January 2022
Economics
Daniela Gabor, Sebastian Kohl: “My home is asset class”
Want to understand the incoming Age of Institutional Landlords – minting assets out of your houses – and the state’s role in it? Read Here
Economics
BBC: UK Car production falls to lowest level for 65 years
Car production in the UK last year fell to its lowest level since 1956, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Read Here Photo: KUKA Systems GmbH licensed under the Creative […]
Climate Crisis
META: Europe targets greenwashing and eco-labelling for food
New legislation from the EU and France will transform the future of food labelling, Read here Photo: Lionel Allorge licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments
This article tries to explain why taxonomy is so crucial and how corporate and political interests have corrupted the process. By Stella Levantesi, an Italian climate journalist Cross-posted from DeSmog UK A nuclear plant outside […]
EU politics
Jorge Varela – The calamitous Portuguese elections
Rule of law is for the weak, not the powerful. Jorge Varela is a doctoral student at the CRMEP, Kingston University London. He researches 20th century continental political philosophy. Photo: Jcornelius licensed under the Creative […]
Climate Crisis
Democracy versus Sustainability by Boris Frankel
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Currently the market is flooded with books about climate change. Many more are on their way. The message of most of these is “The situation has gone from grim […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – Workers on Europe’s big gig platforms meet EU criteria to be employees, trade union analysis finds
ETUC analysis finds food delivery companies Deliveroo and Glovo meet all five of the EU Commission criteria for their workers to be considered employees, but Deliveroo describe the analysis as “incorrect and misleading” The Gig […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Rightward shift, Macron’s fault
How can we explain the rightward shift of the French political landscape? Even if the question is complex and admits of multiple answers, there is little doubt that the experience of Macronism in power bears […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: Power, not prices
Inflation in the UK Read here