Economics
Clea Bourne – AI, Millennials, and Monopolies
Clea Bourne looks at developments of the tech sector.
Media Influence
EU politics
The Guardian: Wealthiest households in Westminster failing to pay extra £833 in tax
This has to be one of the most idiotic articles published in a long while – and that in the Guardian. Neo-liberalism is about winner take all. That is why the tax system is so […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning brought in votes – but Labour needs more
Despite corporate media’s attempt to depict the recent election in England as a defeat for Labour (it may not have been a landslide victory, but if Labour has won many seats and the Tories lost […]
EU politics
John Weeks – Corbyn leadership consolidated, no general election
We asked John to give us a brief analysis concerning the election. This was his reply. Jeremy Corbyn and the portion of the Labour Party that he represents have to deal with a hostile media […]
Finance
The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett
Book review by David Beer Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]
EU politics
Slugger O’Toole: The media’s inability to tear Corbyn down is no surprise to people in Ireland. Our media has been failing to tear Sinn Féin down for decades.
It is interesting to note that the media maybe never was omnipotent, but also that coporate media’s power is waning in Ireland as most everywhere else. Read here
Austerity
Steve Schifferes – How the media made austerity worse
John Gomez/Shutterstock.com Steve Schifferes, City, University of London The UK financial press was much slower to criticise the austerity policies of the government than in other parts of Europe. This meant that it became accepted […]
Corruption
Reckless opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment by Aeron Davis
Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]
EU politics
Tom Mills – The wind of change is blowing through Britain and the BBC
There is currently so much political upheaval in Britain that one might not be able to see the forest for the trees. The panic of the establishment is palpable. It is not only the right […]
Media
Owen Jones: If the BBC is politically neutral, how does it explain Andrew Neil?
One knows that there is a political re-awakening when institutions are being called into question and challenged. In the last weeks Britain’s left has been increasingly criticising the lack of political neutrality in the BBC, […]