After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever.
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Austerity
Left Voice – The Robin Hoods of France: Electrical Workers Cut Electricity to Sell-Out Union, Reconnect for Country’s Poor
In the past few months the electrical workers of France have taken up the mantle of Robin Hood by cutting power to the rich and reconnecting the poor. Most recently, on January 20, the power […]
Finance
The Guardian: EU to force firms to reveal true owners in wake of Panama Papers
Companies across the EU will be forced to disclose their true owners under new legislation prompted by the release of the Panama Papers. Anti-corruption campaigners applauded the agreement as a major step in the fight […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Lawyer says Foreign Office told her to ignore EU corruption evidence
A typical example of the daily corruption endemic in the EU. The EU’s attitude towards whistle-blowers appears to be similar to its attitude towards democracy: both just get in the way of the EU elite […]
How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover is an excellent article.
We must act on it