Nils Pratley accurately sums up Cameroon’s speech on capitalism yesterday: In short, there were few surprises in Cameron’s attempt to claim rights over that prized patch of
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If only the IMF, World Bank and WTO had taken heed of the Green New Deal in 2008
In July 2008, before the crash of Lehman Brothers, I and a group of other thinkers published The Green New Deal. In the forward to that document we
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It’s true: globalisation can only work if it’s regulated globally. And that we’ve refused to do, to date
Will Hutton argued in the Observer yesterday: Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan. We desperately needs economic and social institutions working
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The NHS reorganisation in a nutshell
I liked this succinct comment on the blog this morning with regard to the reorganisation of the NHS.: Doctors are being put in charge of budgets where they
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All you needed to know about NHS reform is that the rating agencies are going to assess success
Many of us have argued for a long time that the Tories are privatising the NHS. They of course deny it. But the new that
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Tax the billionaires
Song written by Tommy Sands and first performed at the trade union rally against cuts in Belfast, 30th November 2011. Video produced by the Creative workers
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Why Jersey’s claims are so wrong
Today’s edition of the Financial Times carries a dreary letter from Geoffrey Cook, chief executive of Jersey Finance (an industry lobbying group supported by the island’s government) that is
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The Four Horsemen are coming
I filmed for The Renegade Economist yesterday. They’ve just released a trailer for their new film – The Four Horseman As they say of the film: We will not
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If only Labour did have an economic policy – and a Courageous one at that
Let me begin with a tweet: @ChukaUmunna: @Ed_Miliband and @edballsmp have made absolutely the right decision on @UKLabour’s economic policies… I guess it’s hardly surprising that a
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