EU politics
All That Is Solid … : Extreme Centrism
You may think of Momentum what you wish, but this piece is grasping a concept that is too often ignored – and it is elusive. The author, who has a party agenda, has missed an […]
National Politics
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck and Joachim Nanninga: TARGET 2 – or how to stir up the people
After the German TARGET 2 balance has almost reached a plus of a trillion euros there is a new wave of alarming articles in Germany, in which eternally scaremongering German economists try to make the […]
Corruption
Milford Edge – The not so canny Castilian
In Germany around year 2010 numerous leading politicians including ministers had to resign as it was revealed that they had copiously plagiarised or had not written their own dissertations. In Spain things seem to be […]
EU politics
Theatre Review – Brexit by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky
By David Shirreff If you are in Edinburgh sometime this August, try to see this play. Whether you’re a Brexiteer or Remainer it will make you think. Apart from being very entertaining it manages to […]
Economics
Frances Coppola: The Irish Central Bank’s Fiscal Problem
Tensions arising between central banks and governments in the Eurozon, in response to attempt by governor of Central Bank of Ireland to dictate fiscal policy Read here
EU politics
Costas Lapavitsas – How the EU Throttles State Aid and Industrial Policy
Many on the British left are trying to minimise the impact of Brexit by campaigning to remain within the European Single Market. This is tragically misguided. The Single Market imposes massive constraints on economic policymaking, […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Europe under Merkel IV: Balance of Impotence
An insightful, although long, analysis concerning where EU politics, especially with regard to its German/French axis, is headed. Read here
Austerity
John Weeks – Free markets and the decline of democracy
What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of […]
Austerity
Noam Chomsky: The Resurgence of Political Authoritarianism
Noam Chomsky on a number of topics concerning the inexorable rise of authoritarianism worldwide. Read here
Austerity
Counterfire: The Greek fires: a catastrophe fuelled by austerity
Odd, looking for an article concerning the effect of austerity upon Greece’s ability to deal with the fires (there were numerable tweets from Greece on the topic), nothing could be found in corporate media. Read […]