EU politics
Private Eye: London lawyers pursue the dead – Daphne Caruana Galizia
What ever happened to freedom of the press being one of the most valuable elementss of our democratic heritage? Obviously making money trumps that. Read here
National Politics
EU politics
TUC . New TUC analysis reveals child poverty set to soar by 1 million in eight years
It would be interesting to have numbers from the other EU nations. By the way, neither being in the EU or Brexit seem to have made things better. The problem is simply neo-liberal ideology. You […]
EU politics
New Statesman: Europe’s socialist success story: the strange rebirth of the Portuguese left
How a left-wing coalition government has functioned better than even its creators could have hoped. Read here
EU politics
NDTV: Catalan Separatists To Try Again To Elect Carles Puigdemont
This is a crisis that simply is not going away, no matter how much the EU tries to ignore it. Read here
EU politics
red pepper: Local elections: 5 reasons to be cheerful
This is another article we are posting to help those of you outside Britain (and probably some inside) to understand what the results of the recent local elections tell us. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why Positive Money is wrong
An interesting criticism of Positive Money, a topic about which we have posted a series of articles (see here) Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Yes, Britain is closing its tax havens. But let’s not forget it created them in the first place
We still have a long journey ahead of us with regard to banning tax havens, but a step has been taken. This post is jointly authored by Anthea Lawson and John Christensen Tax justice campaigners […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning brought in votes – but Labour needs more
Despite corporate media’s attempt to depict the recent election in England as a defeat for Labour (it may not have been a landslide victory, but if Labour has won many seats and the Tories lost […]
EU politics
Jeremy Smith – Early reflections on the English local elections
This is our second quick assessment of yesterdays election in England. The first (read here) is by John Weeks. By Jeremy Smith, co-director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) The English local elections – mainly in […]
EU politics
John Weeks – Corbyn leadership consolidated, no general election
We asked John to give us a brief analysis concerning the election. This was his reply. Jeremy Corbyn and the portion of the Labour Party that he represents have to deal with a hostile media […]