The BBC has reported that: Labour’s John McDonnell has called for a new “Hippocratic oath” at Britain’s large accountancy firms, warning that they must work
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What if you don’t have socks?
I received a mail this morning which discussed the now predictable market fundamentalist reaction to Oxfam’s annual wealth report. This was said by my correspondent:
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The demise of the reasonable person?
According to the Guardian this morning: Philip Hammond [has] enraged leave MPs in his own party … by telling business leaders in the Swiss ski
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The bricks are falling out of the neoliberal wall
I was at a meeting yesterday where a policy proposal that must necessarily be kept under wraps for now was under discussion. The meeting was
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Socialising the economy
Almost every serious commentator from the right wing of politics who also has some knowledge of the real world is pretty worried right now. From
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Have we got a right to go to work?
I know it’s not trendy, cool or whatever to say you like a Dire Straits song, but I have said before, and may well say
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No wonder the Right hate Oxfam’s inequality data
Yesterday the market fundamentalist think tank The Centre for Policy Studies launched its ritual annual attack on Oxfam’s report in inequality, produced in time for
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We don’t get more conservative as we age: it just looks that way
These paragraphs were in an article written by Dana Rosenfeld, a Reader in Sociology at Keele University, on ageing on the academic comment website The Conversation this
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The existing liberal international order cannot be saved because it is beyond salvation. The only question is what replaces it?
Martin Wolf has just noted on the FT website that: Today … the liberal international order is sick. As Freedom House’s Freedom in the World
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