Austerity
Danny Dorling: Short Cuts
This is a further article dealing with the violence of austerity. Read here
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Austerity
Richard Murphy – It’s time the Treasury listened to the National Audit Office when it comes to government debt
Austerity is based not only on bad economics, but lies as well. As Richard Murphy demonstrates in this article Britain’s debt burden is not nearly as great as the government claims, which is its principal […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEATH
In Germany there is an increasing practice by politicians and mainstream media to compare politics to a football match. Chris Dillow is right. For the elite it is a game. Stars come and go. One […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Austerity, not Brexit, has doomed the Tory party
While the mainstream press cannot publish enough articles about Brexit – most authors having no idea of what they are writing about – the true disaster in Britain is being ignored: austerity. That is because […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow: TORIES’ AUSTERITY DOUBLETHINK
The Tories have a problem. The political winds dictate that they retreat from fiscal austerity. But how can they do so without admitting that austerity was an error in the first place? On the Today […]
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
Austerity
Craig Mackay – You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.
The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerity is causing increasing harm to the great majority of working people in the UK. By refusing to borrow to invest in infrastructure […]
Austerity
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouth
Part of neo-liberalism system is to convince us that the abnormal is normal. What we yesterday condemned or found repelling is actually quite alright – normal. Fintan O’Toole iedentifies this process with regard to homelessness […]
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