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.
Inequality
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
Bill Hudson: Greek debt update
The eurozone must collapse in the end. If it does not, the entire eurozone will end up looking like Greece looks like today. Greece is the eurozone’s future, if it is kept in place. Read […]
EU politics
Aeron Davis: Is the British establishment finally finished?
The British elite in self-destruction mode. Aeron Davis looks at the developments in Britain’s establishment of the past 50 years and why it is inexorably dedicated to destroying itself – unfortunately with a lot of […]
Austerity
Guy Standing – Why Britain’s Tories do not believe in free markets
The claims of Brtain’s Coservative Party amounts to a lie. They have been building the most unfree market system ever conceived. Guy Standing is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and Professorial Research […]
Austerity
John Harris: If the elite ever cared about the have-nots, that didn’t last long
Most Remainers’ political analysis goes no deeper than those of the Brexiters. Both have a gut reaction: one knows the EU is destroying their lives, the others know that they profit from it. Read here […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Fanning – If everyone lived sustainably, what would their lives be like?
No country currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource Andrew Fanning, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds Cross-posted from From Poverty to […]
Deregulation
Resolution Foundation – The UK’s tight labour market and zero hours contracts
Never heard of zero hours contracts? This is modern slavery and makes the gig economy appear worker friendly. By Daniel Tomlinson, Research and Policy Analyst at Resoultion Foundation Cross-posted from the Resolution Foundation […]
Energy
Climate News Network – Fairer world may mean more modest dreams
To achieve a fairer world, humans must think again about how they manage the only planet at their disposal. By Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]
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 […]