The panic of the authoritarian liberal political class is escalating rapidly.
Finance
Brett Scott: The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it
Banks are closing ATMs and branches in an attempt to ‘nudge’ users towards digital services – and it’s all for their own benefit Read here
EU politics
Yasha Levine: Ukraine: A Short History of Meddling
American meddling in Ukraine goes a lot deeper than Trump’s crude attempt to squeeze kompromat from the country’s new president. Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: China is big, Germany is small
Anyone dealing with absolute figures must always be careful. Reports are currently coming in from all over the country that China’s trade surplus has reached a record high of 1,000 billion dollars. Many media outlets […]
That is just apalling behaviour. Britain has become a police state. How dare those in charge ever again fling slurs against supposedly dictatorial regimes. Starmer is the nastiest snake in the grass. But then that has been obvious for some years. Whyy did Corbyn ever trust the man? Why are Britains mainstream media so much in line with this kind of behaviour?