Bill Mitchell: The British government did not approach insolvency in March 2020

This is an important step for the Scots, but should not distract from the fact that they are and will be extracting massive amounts of oil from the North Sea. Read here  

Owen Jones may not be for Catalonia’s independence from Spain, but he recognises that all people have a right to self-determination: “I have little truck with pro-independence movements unless a nation is oppressed, like those […]

The May ’68 Movement was the start of a historical period of considerable reduction in social inequalities in France which ran out of steam later for quite different reasons. Read here