Despite lofty commitments by governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are still planning to extract huge amounts of energy from fossil fuels in the coming years, according to a new report from the United Nations.
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Finance
Nick Dearden: If Labour wants to save the NHS, it needs to cut out Big Pharma
Giant drug companies – ‘Big Pharma’ – have become the ultimate symbol of a broken corporate model. They live off monopolies on medicines discovered many years ago, extending those monopolies by making tiny changes to […]
Corruption
Radosveta Vassileva – Europe’s Blind Spot: The Movement Against Corruption in Bulgaria
The people of Bulgaria have been on the streets protesting against endemic government corruption since July. Meanwhile, leading European politicians continue to pretend that everything is fine. We spoke to legal scholar and activist Radosveta […]
Economics
Branko Milanovic: The bitterness of Adam Smith
Often cited, seldom read. Branko Milanovic finally reads the whole of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and reflects upon its meaning. Read here
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