The podcast from Michael Hudon linked in this tweet by Steve Keen is well worth listening to: Debt Deflation and the Neofeudal Empire with Michael
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Funding: an update
Earlier this year, as Covid spread, I watched my income disappear. I don’t blame anyone for that, but a research appointment was put on hold,
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Therese Coffey: a minister in cloud cuckoo land
The FT has a report on an interview with Therese Coffey this morning, in which it is noted that: The UK’s welfare system is prepared
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Cineworld: in memoriam
I think there is something much more significant to this story in the FT than reasonable concern for those who might lose their jobs as
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The Pope’s kicking neoliberalism when it’s down today
This is from the Papal Encyclical that was published today. I’m not a Catholic, but this is worthy of note, and for more reason than
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Johnson, and his chums
As Tories go Justine Greening is on the decent end of the scale. That’s why she quit Parliament. But she’s still a Tory, and she
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Is the growing support for Scottish nationalism based on a wholly explicable desire for a decent government reflecting a decent society?
Colin Kidd has what I think to be a very good article on what he calls The Scottish Question in the New Statesman. In it
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Do cars need to come with a health warning?
Some may find this off the wall, but my Green New Deal colleague Andrew Simms is saying something here that seems to me to make
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Saturday night music
An especially poignant track for me: differing reactions to this track eventually made me realise that my first wife and I were on different courses
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