“Woke” once meant awareness of injustice. Now it is used to mock compassion. This video explains how culture-war language protects wealth and power, and why
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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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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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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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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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Regular commentator, PSR, used the term pleonexia in a comment here this morning. This reminded me that it required a glossary entry. This is it: 
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I think this is the best summary of what happened at the G7 security summit this week. It comes from Politico in the USA: Pentagon
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I recently recorded another Funding the Future podcast with John Christensen, with whom I have discussed tax justice and corruption for more than twenty-five years.
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As The Guardian noted yesterday: Rachel Reeves is under pressure to reassure MPs over the state of the UK’s public finances, amid concerns that the
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