EU politics
Politico: France dials back on digital tax plans after US meetings
The great Macron movement seems to be going the usual EU neo-liberal route. Read here
EU politics
EU politics
Thomas Piktetty – Budget 2018: French youth sacrified
Macron’s 2018 Budget fits in the EU pattern: More Money for the wealthy, less for the young, in this case for higher education. Read here
EU politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Dani Rodrik talks straight on trade
Wren-Lewis discusses Dani Rodrik’s new book “Straight talk on trade”. Read here
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
EU politics
Thomas Frank: What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world
While the media has concentrated on the salacious episodes of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes against women. Thomas Frank has taken a political prespective – and as always in the case with his analyses, thought provoking. Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Why conservatives should be Corbynistas
“Bourgeois virtues pay off in a bourgeois society – where there is a large middle class. But they don’t pay off in a 1% takes all society where wealth is accumulated in shadier ways.” Read […]
EU politics
Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation
As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: British banks can’t be trusted – let’s nationalise them
Brexit is going in directions that no one even contemplated before the referendum – Britain rethinking its economic future. This is not the stuff of ultra-conservatives and racists, but a left that is discovering that […]
Energy
Hulya Dagdeviren – Control of the Energy Sector
The British government’s energy policy is marked by poor performance and high costs for consumers. While energy companies rake in massive profits and repeatedly introduce steep price increases, they treat their customers with contempt and neglect. There is great […]
EU politics
Social Mobility Commission of the UK: Low pay and progression in the labour market
This – once again- puts paid to the claim that Jobs with low pay lead to well paid, permanent employment. Read here