This year is now almost certain to become Earth’s warmest on record after a hot July and August saw global temperatures reach the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
EU politics
Chris Dillow – Stumbling and Mumbling: Corbyn’s success: centrists’ failure
Dillow cites the creation of a proletarianized professional cadre as a political game changer in the UK Read here
Deregulation
BBC – Uber brings forward trialling driverless taxis in UK
The UK Government seems cock-a-hoop for robo-taxis, despite the destructive consequences for jobs, congestion and potentially road safety. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Matt Broomfield – The Balkan Scenario
Syria may go the way of the former Yugoslavia, and be carved up into ethnically divided states in a process heavily dictated by the Western powers. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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