Our government’s big green idea: let’s subsidise natural disasters
February 28, 2015 3:58 pm Leave your thoughts
Britain pays billions to support farming, and then billions to repair the catastrophic damage it causes, writes George Monbiot.
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Economic Policies for an Incoming Labour Government (Part 1 of 9)
February 28, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Coalition Government's Failed Austerity Programme
An Expensive Speech
February 27, 2015 2:56 pm Leave your thoughts
Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
Is Russia a Kleptocracy?
February 26, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Many anti-Russian commentators today have no problem with classifying Vladimir Putin's government as kleptocratic
Education, Education, Deprivation
February 26, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
If you were a university student at any time from 1962 to 1989, you received a maintenance grant; it started off at a little under £400 p.a. and reached £1,430 in 1980
Swimming With Sharks: Goldman Sachs, Schools and Capital Appreciation Bonds
February 24, 2015 4:44 pm Leave your thoughts
Remember when Goldman Sachs - dubbed by Matt Taibbi the Vampire Squid - sold derivatives to Greece so the government could conceal its debt, then bet against that debt, driving it up?
A Slow-Burning Revolution
February 24, 2015 4:41 pm Leave your thoughts
Former MP and member of the Labour shadow cabinet, Bryan Gould, details the beginnings of a paradigm shift in economic thinking
Anti-What?
February 24, 2015 4:33 pm Leave your thoughts Uri Avnery asks if anti-semitism is on the rise in Europe
Extremism is prevailing in Eurozone Negotiations
February 23, 2015 12:17 am Leave your thoughts
The negotiations between the newly elected Greek Government and the other Eurozone states have been a battle between pragmatism and extremism
Has Democracy Gone Missing? Or was it ever here?
February 20, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
People are suffering from a deficiency which is as unbalancing as a hormone or vitamin deficiency. What we are severely lacking in is democracy