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Tom Blackburn: Keir Starmer Is Keeping New Labour’s Authoritarianism Alive

May 29, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The Blair-era Labour Party introduced a raft of policies hostile to civil liberties. The British government continues to push legislation to clamp down on protesters and protect police, and Keir Starmer is letting it happen. […]

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Jonathan Cook – Britain: Labour is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics

March 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour leader Keir Starmer is determined to destroy the last vestiges of Corbynism through smears. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special […]

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UK, EU strike new Northern Ireland post-Brexit deal

February 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Al Jazeera report on the new Northern Ireland deal, known as ‘the Windsor Framework’. Read the article HERE.

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Ben Wray – Britain: Boris’ War exposes his liberal critics

February 22, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Boris Johnson is at his demagogic worst in escalating the war in Ukraine. Yet his liberal critics are quietly supportive of his provocations. Ben Wray is the co-ordinator of Brave New Europe’s Gig Economy Project […]

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Guy Standing: Can Labour de-commodify Higher Education? It has a minor problem

February 1, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Tony Blair’s son, Euan, is spearheading a new phase in the commodification of Higher Education in the UK. Guy Standing is a labour economist and professorial research associate at SOAS. Cross-posted from the Progressive Economy […]

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Tribune: ‘Ambulance Workers Are Absolutely on Their Knees’

January 11, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Ambulance workers went on strike today in the UK. The government wants to strip them of the right to strike. Read the article HERE.

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Ben Wray: The Breakdown of Neoliberal Globalisation Is the Root Cause of Britain’s Political Crisis

August 19, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Review of a new book on Britain’s decade of political turmoil Read the article HERE

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David Jamieson – Amid the Tory farce, the real divisions emerge

July 8, 2022 Ben Wray 0

Written shortly before Boris Johnson’s resignation, but a good examination of what’s really at stake in the crisis of the Conservative party Cross-posted from Conter “We need the return of a Conservative Government” – the […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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