Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality.
EU politics
RTE: Hundreds of thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan separatists’ trial
Around 200,000 people have marched through Barcelona against the high-profile trial of Catalan separatist leaders that started this week, which they dismiss as a farce. “Self-determination is not a crime,” read a banner at the […]
EU politics
Aditya Chakrabortty: The problem is not capitalism. It’s that the Tories aren’t much cop at it
From The Guardian This is a brilliant criticism of Thatcherite policy – its collapse and how and why it has failed. Read here
Finance
Jan Fichtner: The Cayman conundrum: why is one tiny archipelago the largest financial centre in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A good summary of the role of the Cayman Islands as a tax haven. Hopefully that will start to change in 2020 after the UK Parliament passed a law imposing public registers of beneficial ownership […]
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