What do you think the UK government should be spending its international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, that’s exactly what it has been doing.
Corruption
AP: Romanian expats stage huge anti-govt protest in Bucharest
Romania is an EU member state. And yes, these are Social Democrats and Liberals, both considered excessively corrupt, members respectively of the social democratic Party of European Socialists and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for […]
EU politics
Larry Elliot: Labour has a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and the Tories know it
People in Britain are ready for a radical change. The Tories are politically bankrupt, which most everyone seems to agree on. Trying to brand Corbyn a Marxist throwback who wants to turn Britain into Venezuela […]
Finance
Robert Hockett: Why Is Uber Über Alles? Public Platform Infrastructure for the ‘Gig Economy’
Most of the platform infrastructure used by the ‘gig economy’ is both easy to replicate and cheap to provide, such that private providers are mere rent-extractors. The upshot is that we both can and should […]
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