RBS is being slowly privatised – but little has been done to check the corrupt culture, argues accounting expert Prem Sikka.
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Austerity
Jamie Jordan, Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne – There is little evidence the EU’s post-crisis economic governance regime has moved in a more ‘social’ direction
What? The EU, that most perfect institution in the world, putting neo-liberal policy before the welfare of its citizens? Why did no one tell us? Maybe the Brexiteers were onto something after all. Read here
Geopolitics
BBC: IOC bars Indonesia from hosting Olympic events over ban on Israeli athletes
Indonesia gets sanctioned before Israel. We need to decolonize sport urgently. Indonesia said it would not grant visas to the Israel team for the ongoing World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta because of the country’s […]
Economics
David Graeber and David Wengrow: How to change the course of human history (at least, the part that’s already happened)
The story we have been telling ourselves about our origins is wrong, and perpetuates the idea of inevitable social inequality. David Graeber and David Wengrow ask why the myth of ‘agricultural revolution’ remains so persistent, […]
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