The Guardian has this headline this morning: UK far right lines up behind Rupert Lowe in challenge to Reform The subtitle is: MP who fell
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What can we do about corruption?
I hit the corruption theme in The National this morning: As is my habit, the angle of approach in that article differs from what I
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New glossary entry: Woke
“Woke” originally meant being alert to injustice, whether it be racism, inequality, exploitation, or the ways power harms those with the least protection. It has
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Europe needs to wake up and be woke
Heath Cox Richardson’s ‘Letter from an American’ is worth reading this morning, as it invariably is. As she noted: The Trump administration’s white nationalist project
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Labour has outlived its usefulness
There were articles in The Guardian over the weekend that explained a great deal about Labour. First, there were these comments by Andy Beckett: The
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Economic questions: the John Ruskin question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Neoliberalism is the politics of destruction
In this video, I explain why neoliberalism is not a mistake but a system built to shift power from people to corporations. This politics of
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New glossary entry: macroeconomics
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole: how national income, employment, inflation, investment, and financial stability are created and sustained. It asks
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New glossary entry: free markets
“Free markets” is the phrase used to describe markets supposedly operating without government interference. It is one of the most powerful and totally incorrect myths
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