A mix of corrupt EU parliamentarians, Union leader, and head of an NGO. This is the democracy that the EU has on offer. The talk is of “a few black sheep”. Why is no one asking what colour the rest of the flock is?
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 […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: HOW TO DEFEND CAPITALISM
“Capitalism hasn’t come into doubt because people woke up stupid one morning. It’s in question because it has stopped delivering the goods.” Read here
Climate Crisis
Timothée Parrique: Decoupling in the IPCC Report
It’s the Galileo affair of the 21st century: Has economic growth in developed countries decoupled from environmental pressures? For the last decade, the prevailing (yet unproven) answer was: yes, it has – high-income nations have greened […]
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