Economics
Diane Coyle on fixing Britain’s economy
Diane speaks to openDemocracy about industrial strategy, universal basic infrastructure, moving beyond GDP, and how to build an economy that works for the 21st century.
National Politics
EU politics
Oliver Norgrove: Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed
Privatisation in Britain has ended ih high prices, poor service, and the infrastructure in tatters. Yet the Conservative Party still sees it as a great British success. Read here
EU politics
Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery
The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy. Read here
Austerity
Ann Pettifor: A triumph for George Osborne’s austerity plan? Not when our social fabric is in tatters
The ex-chancellor rejoices as his target is finally hit, but austerity has taken a terrible toll Read here
EU politics
Michael Mair – Gaining Momentum, Spreading Out – An Update on the UK’s University Strike
The university strike in UK is growing in strength and public support. In his second report (read the first here) Michael Mair brings us up to date as well as analysing the importance of this […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Catching up in Africa
Africa has not been terribly important for Germany as it has been for the United States, France, Britain, Portugal – and now China. Germany’s sudden interest in Ghana may be part of the Trump administration’s […]
EU politics
Andrew Dowling – ‘Winter is Here’. The Growing Erosion of Civil Rights in Spain
The Catalan crisis has now taken hold of Spanish national politics. What once seemed a regional conflict has exposed cracks in Spain’s democratic facade. Andrew Dowling, Senior Lecturer in Catalan and Spanish History at Cardiff […]
EU politics
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel Bompard
As we experienced in the campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders the left has to revolutionise how it organises itself, voters, and its communications to overcome corporate media. In this lengthy interview Manuel Bompard […]
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]