650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]
Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]
Recent investigations have provided damning evidence of what those in the public health community have known for decades: Big Tobacco, in its relentless pursuit of profit, works hard to block and weaken consumer protections. It […]
There is so much white noise in the media concerning Brexit, almost all of it by people who have no idea of what is really going on behind the scenes. David Shirreff tries to make […]
The economic situation of young people between 18 and 34 in Britain is deteriorating. Their indebtedness and over-indebtedness are increasing rapidly, but not because they are necessarily living beyond their means, but simply to meet essential […]
Bill Mitchell has a long, hard look at the legacy of Germany’s outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Read here
The authors write: “The international community still fails to recognise that the region has witnessed an unprecedented revolution in participative democracy that started long before the referendum, and will almost certainly outlast any constitutional settlement.” […]
Workfare is a British government policy whereby individuals must undertake work, often unpaid, in return for their benefit payments or risk losing them. It is not only part of Britain’s austerity regime, but has been […]
In no nation Europe are the effects of austerity so well documented as in Britain – not that they are necessarily worse than in other parts of Europe, but simply not being reported. At BRAVE […]
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
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