EU politics
Good Journalism – BBC’s Andrew Neil challenges minister to defend Corbyn spy ‘smears
Yes, it still exists: Hard-hitting, persistent, methodic confrontation of politicians by journalists.
National Politics
Austerity
The Guardian: UK millennials second worst-hit financially in developed world, says study
Neo-liberalism is out to get the young. They are especially vulnerable. They have little experience in self-organisation and do not vote. Greece is the victim of German neo-liberalsim, Britain’s current situtation is the result of […]
Economics
Open Democracy – Can radical social democracy save us?
Paul Mason, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Anthony Barnett and Dr Johnna Montgomerie discuss whether radical social democracy offers a way out of the crisis of neoliberalism, and what that means for future economic policy. […]
Corruption
Craig Mackay – Endemic Corruption in the UK?
Europeans believe they have very little corruption. That is because laws have been created to make corrruption legal – at least when it is on a large scale. Read here
Corruption
Daniele Albertazzi and Arianna Giovannini – The 2018 Italian election: old faces, new parties, familiar certainty
Italian elections are rapidly nearing. Although this article left out Liberi e Pari (Free and Equal) it ohterwiseprovides a good overview. The conclusion seems realistic enough: after the elections there will be no change, just […]
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck – German Coalition Agreement: No new beginning, no dynamism, no cohesion, just the same old mercantilism
The Grand Coalition Agreement in Germany contains of a lot of words, yet little content. It does not fulfil what it promises, but is simply a programme for the intensified continuation of German mercantilism. Heiner […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Austerity
John Weeks explains why one does not need an economist to understand economics, why austerity in Britain was and is unnecessary, the importance of gilts in a society, and lots more.
EU politics
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: how a Liverpool suburb upended its housing market
This is the real stuff: Taking back power. After decades of neglect from local government, the the citizens of the Granby area in Liverpool took matters into its own hands to provide affordable housing. Read […]
Austerity
Colin Hines – ‘#No Brexit Jeremy Corbyn’: saving the UK economy and getting Labour elected
A different Remain. Colin Hines is one of the few trying to promote remain, while correcting the failed policies that resulted in Brexit. The question is if the Tories and the EU are seeking an […]
Deregulation
Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy
In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]