Cutting back the deadwood and overgrowth stimulates growth, giving space to new green shoots — but can the same be said for the latest pruning of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?
EU politics
Prem Sikka: Unpicking the City of London’s new finance sector propaganda
A new report paints a rosy picture of the finance sector’s tax contribution. Prem Sikka digs a bit deeper… Read here
Climate Crisis
DeZeen: “Our dependency on growth, like on concrete, must be abolished”
The pursuit of infinite economic growth is driving climate breakdown and producing ecologically toxic architecture, argues Phineas Harper, one of the chief curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. Read here
EU politics
George Monbiot: Referendums get a bad press – but to fix Britain, we need more of them
650 parliamentarians decide for 66 million Britons. Elections are years apart. Is that really democracy asks George Monbiot. There must be a way to improve this system: referendums. The sort of referendum used for Brexit […]
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