Finance
Jacob Weisberg: The Autocracy App
Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate events since the 2016 election, but of its consequences. Read here
Media
Economics
Andreas Møller Mulvad and Rune Møller Stahl: The Real Denmark
An excellent, objective piece concerning the current state of Denmark and the Scandinavian nations. In the rest of Europe Scandinavia is not villified, it simply does not exist as it does not fit in the […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: On Europe’s austerity drive and DiEM25 – an OECD podcast
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]
EU politics
Tom Mills: Can the Ruling Class Speak?
Talking about elites isn’t just the realm of conspiracy theorists. In fact, it’s a vital component of left-wing politics. Read here
EU politics
Leighton Andrews – Is the tide turning on regulating Facebook and Google?
Facebook and Google are modern utilities – and natural monopolies – so they need a utility regulator. Leighton Andrews is Professor of Public Service Leadership and Innovation at Cardiff Business School, a former Welsh Government […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Why interest rates are low and Italy needs our support
The political causes of ultra low interest rates in Europe is still being ignored. While those who fail to comprehend that we have to support Italy are promoting nationalism there and in Germany. Heiner Flassbeck […]
Economics
Politics Theory Other – Will Davies on ‘Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World’
Will Davies joins me to discuss his new book, ‘Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World’. We spoke about the declining public trust in experts, the blurring of the distinctions between war and peace, […]
Economics
James Heckman and Sidharth Moktan – The Tyranny of the Top Five Economic Journals
Getting published in a top five economics journal is a near-requirement for tenure. But it’s a poor measure of research quality within a system that punishes creativity. James Heckman it the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University […]
EU politics
Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and 21 others: Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
This is a brilliant example of how corporate media function s in order to destroy any attempts at rolling back neo-liberalism. The coverage was an asbolute disgrace. Read here
Economics
Larry Elliott: For Labour’s economic policy to be radical, it has to be credible
Lary Elliot is right. While the British labour Party spent its time and energy fighting an ineffably overblown debate concerning antisemitism in their ignited and fanned by the nro-liberal coporate press (expecially Elliot´s home newpaper […]