There is no shortage of housing in Britain. There is however speculation, which is driving prices up, resulting in empty housing.
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Ann Pettifor: Why building more homes will not solve Britain’s housing crisis
EU politics
Kyiv Independent: EU tariffs on Ukrainian goods return after 3 years of war, complicating Kyiv’s path to European integration
The European Union is set to reinstate tariffs on Ukrainian agricultural exports on June 6. This is the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion that the EU will not renew an agreement suspending trade barriers […]
EU politics
Duncan Wheeler – Basque Separatists ETA Set a Car Bomb That Helped Build Spanish Democracy
On this day in 1973, Basque separatists ETA assassinated far-right prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The action played an important role in ending Franco’s dictatorship — an inconvenient truth for the democratic Spain against which […]
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
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