Chas Freeman – A Geopolitical Check-Up

The wellbeing of a capitalist society depends on the endless accumulation of privately owned capital. This requires a replacement of input-minimising by output-maximising rationality. One result is a fiscal crisis of the state, due to […]

In this provocative television essay, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades turns his forensic gaze on that modern phenomenon that drives us all up the wall – jargon. In a wide-ranging programme he dissects politics, the […]

For the predatory capitalist, precarious employment is profitable. But what if this subjugation and short-termism has had its time? As younger generations of workers increasingly see the benefits of a trade union, is the tide […]