EU politics
Sigrún Davíðsdóttir’s Icelog: Iceland: from fishing to tourism / 10 years on
Whatever happened to Iceland. If you wish to get up to speed on developments in Iceland, this article is well worth reading. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
Ernesto Gallo – Italy in an age of authoritarian liberalism: How the recent history of Italian capitalism has been shaped by populists and technocrats
Italy has its own brand of democracy, which has very little to do with what is in textbooks.. That is why scholars and pundits have so much difficulty coming to grips with it. Ernesto Gallo, […]
EU politics
Ross Douthat: The Fall of the German Empire
An extremely interesting article. Highly recommended. Read here
Austerity
Owen Jones: Carillion is no one-off scandal. Neoliberalism will bring many more
Carillion was a British mulitnational facilities, services, and construction company, which primarily lived from the outsourcing of UK government contracts until is went dramatically went bust earlier this year with massive losses of public money, […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – LuxLeaks verdict: hope for whistleblowers as Antoine Deltour is acquitted
We’ve always said that the #LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and investigative journalist Edouard Perrin should never have been charged because the disclosures they were involved in were so obviously in the public interest, […]
Deregulation
The Guardian: East coast mainline to be temporarily renationalised
Privatisation of Britain’s railways has cost taxpayers and passengers billions of Pounds, thousands of jobs, not to mention the awful service. If this can be done with East Coast Mainline, why not with the other […]
Corruption
Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Same old same old…Tory austerity
The British economy is not doing well in any sense. Many UK citizens lead an existential battle of survival. All this has been caused by austerity, which was a miracle solution to solve all economic […]
Climate Crisis
Positive Money – A Green Bank of England
At an international conference of financial supervisors, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney described the ‘transition in action’ underway as central banks and the financial sector at large begin to address climate change. Positive Money’s […]
Economics
George Monbiot: The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it
The Tories eeclared they were preparing a new, robust environmental policy. The result is the usual neo-liberal rubbish. Everything is reduced to its monetary value. Whoever still has a connection with nature knows this is […]