Deregulation
James Moore: Death of an out-sourcer
James Moore in the Independent lamented that PFI is bleeding Britain’s National Health Service dry. Read here
Deregulation
Deregulation
Adam Leaver – Out of time: The fragile temporality of Carillion’s accumulation model
The state as the Ponzi scheme investor of last resort. “Is it for outsourcing firms to help the state with its service delivery problems, or is it for the state to help capital with its […]
Deregulation
Bill Mitchell: Renationalisation – when self-promoted genius becomes plain lame
Privatisation has been one of the greatest wealth re-distributions in history – to the benefit of the wealthy. Now that most Europeans have understood this, the same perpetrators are coming up with people friendly privatisation. […]
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: Globalisation is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?
Globalisation has been caught in a steel trap of its own making. Its crisis is due to too much money in the wrong hands. Yanis Varoufakis analyses the world crisis and offers concrete solutions. Read […]
Austerity
Farewell, neoliberalism: An interview with Wolfgang Streeck
“Act local, think global. The only ones that can act globally are the CIA and Goldman Sachs, and only as long as there is no effective local resistance. In the real world, there is no […]
Deregulation
The Guardian: Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in Britain, report finds
Nurses are among those ending up with nowhere to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords, says watchdog. This cannot be blamed on Brexit. Read here
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber loses appeal in UK employment rights case
This is further good news for workers in their attempt to regulate the gig economy – something that most governments are not doing. Read here
Corruption
Philip Goff: Tax rogues like Bono are harming the world’s poorest people
With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here
Corruption
Owen Jones: Tax avoidance may be legal but it’s bankrupting our social order
With the Paradise Papers in the headlines, we at BRAVE NEW EUROPE are trying to publish what we consider the best critical articles on the topic. Read here