There is nothing more contentious than immigration, it seems. In the UK there’s a swathe of the population that don’t like foreigners very much, unless they are serving them fish and chips in Torremolinos. Others will deny being xenophobic but argue that Britain is full and there’s no room for anybody else. A more rationale argument might be that too much immigration happening too quickly can have societal and economic impacts – but what is too much and too quickly?
Austerity
The Real News Network: David Harvey – The Persistence of Neoliberalism Despite its Loss of Legitimacy
Neoliberalism continues in national and transnational institutions, even though it has lost legitimacy as an ideology and has even penetrated progressive thinking, argues Prof. David Harvey Part 1 Part 2
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – My dummy spit over The Guardian and Don’t Look Up: climate change & 50 years of media degeneration
Just a few opportunistic comments: We began our boycott of the Guardian over two years ago for similar reasons (about the same time David Graeber decided to stop writing for the Guardian). Steve is an […]
Climate Crisis
Upstream Podcast: Jason Hickel on International Development and Post-capitalism
Jason Hickel on global inequality, the climate crisis, and how degrowth is ultimately a call for decolonization… plus a critique of the coloniality of Nick Kristof’s thought. Listen here
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