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Environment

Andrew Pendleton – In the Shadow of Kinder Scout

April 24, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Nearly ninety years after the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, half of England’s land remains in the hands of just 1%. It’s time for radical land reform. Andrew Pendleton is the Director of Policy and Advocacy […]

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Austerity

Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain

April 24, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]

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National Politics

Sean Bell: What can we expect from Spain’s ‘deeply undemocratic’ election?

April 24, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Predictions for the April 28th Spanish election, after the first televised debate, and an interview with Basque candidate Bel Pozueta: “An important election for those wanting to stand up to the Spanish right wing.” Read […]

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Globalisation

Ed Lewis: Millions of Pounds of UK Aid Spent on Profit-making Private Schools. Why?

April 24, 2019 David Shirreff 0

What do you think the UK government should be spending its international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, […]

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Economics

Ben Wray – What Currency? A Question that Sharply Divides Backers of Scottish Independence

April 23, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Scottish National Party members are due to vote shortly on whether – given success in a future referendum – an independent Scotland would “sterlingise” or create its own currency Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and […]

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Climate Crisis

Colin Hines – A Social and Green New Deal to Reverse the Populist Tide

April 23, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Quantitative easing – not to save bankers and property barons – but for the insecure majority of people, creating jobs, raising incomes, and making their lives more bearable, should be part of a pan-European Green […]

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Climate Crisis

Larry Elliott: How the Green New Deal was Hatched in a London Bar

April 23, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Addressing a double whammy: in 2007, over a friendly drink, the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott, came up with a radical plan to combat the effects of the financial crisis and climate change. He called […]

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Economics

Raffaele Giammetti – The Effects of Brexit and Alternative Scenarios

April 22, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Many estimates of the effects of Brexit overlook one fundamental element: the integration of our economies into global value chains. That will be negative for other European countries. For Britain, there is a possible way […]

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Economics

John Weeks and Jeremy Smith – Economic Guidelines for a Better European Union

April 22, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The existing European Treaty is dangerously disfunctional. Better guidelines would enhance rather than constrain economic policy. Here are some, including making the European Central Bank the reserve buyer of national public bonds John Weeks is […]

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National Politics

Sebastian Balfour – Spain’s Elections: What’s at Stake and What’s the Likely Outcome?

April 21, 2019 David Shirreff 0

A look ahead to the Spanish elections on April 28th. The issue of Catalan separatism looms large, while the right appears more fragmented than the left. A wild card could be the populist Vox party. […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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