Climate Crisis
The Guardian: Scores arrested as thousands block London bridges in climate rebellion
Protesters close five main bridges across Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience Read here
National Politics
EU politics
Daily Sabah: EU executive to launch action over Italy budget, sources say
While the UK Express reports that 60% of Italians now believe the EU is bad for them, Germany refuses to relent. It is no longer a question of if another nation leaves the EU, but […]
Economics
John Weeks – Brexit Agreement: A Deal Between German Manufacturing and UK Finance Sectors
Currently – actually it was always a problem – it is difficult to find anything terribly insightful concerning Brexit. John Weeks was always the exception. He simply follows the money, which very effective. He also […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: The epitaph for Tory austerity has been written, and it’s damning
This is what Brexit is really about, but this has been a hand in hand exercise of the British elite and the EU political class. Read here
EU politics
Bloomberg: The French Have Another Reason to Be Angry at Emmanuel Macron
This is probably the only sensible thing Macron has done up to now, but his dirigiste manner has not bothered to convince voters, nor do the additional taxes appear to be destined to improve public […]
Austerity
Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Ana Lara Gómez – Ideology (not economics) explains why the Troika treated Ireland less harshly than Greece
Both Greece and Ireland suffered substantially during the Eurozone crisis, but the two countries’ treatment by the ‘Troika’ of the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission was strikingly different. Drawing on new research, they […]
Austerity
Stavros Mavroudeas – A resurgence of popular mobilisations in Greece
On November 14th, Greece`s largest union, ADEDY, which represents about half a million public sector workers, carried out a one day strike. The union is demanding that the SYRIZA government retracts pay and pension cuts and […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Brexit: What I think Labour should be saying on Europe
During the Brexit debate we have concentrated our coverage on the real cause of the successful referendum: the destructive neo-liberal policy of the EU that has caused so much suffering and misfortune for so many. […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – Extinction Rebellion?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Guardian columnist, writer and environmental campaigner George Monbiot to discuss the launch of Extinction Rebellion. What can be done about climate change? Does technology have the answers? Are […]
EU politics
Georgina Blakeley – Catalonia: a year on, political prisoners go unnoticed by the rest of the world
EPA/Enric Fontcuberta Georgina Blakeley, The Open University After an unofficial referendum in October 2017, the pro-independence political parties in the Catalan parliament unilaterally declared independence from Spain. In response, the Spanish government invoked Article […]