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Three common neoliberal threads run through this week’s news: How will the enormous sums of money borrowed by the government to hold up the Covid-19 ailing economy be paid for? …
What sort of future do you want for yourself and your children? If it’s not more of the same, then it’s time for some radical thinking. Read MoreThis week the Learning and Work Institute published its July briefing on employment. Stephen Evans, its chief executive, made it clear that there were signs of an employment crisis ahead …
“Either you guarantee employment, or you guarantee there will be unemployment.” – Pavlina Tcherneva Read More“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.” ― John Maynard Keynes When the world is facing one of the worst public health …
We need a government that dares to think big and be more ambitious in its strategy to set our economy on a more sustainable and equitable pathway. Read MoreJust a brief look at the news headlines in the last few weeks should be enough to set the alarm bells ringing. We are watching as the nation suffers a …
To rephrase Mahatma Gandhi ‘The future will depend on what we do today.’ Read More‘To talk about the future is only useful if it leads to action now.’ E F Schumacher: Small is beautiful: Economics as if people mattered. The Bank of England in …
To talk about the future is only useful if it leads to action now Read More“Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!” – Mehmet Murat İldan (Turkish writer). Did you clap for the NHS and key workers? Did you cheer on …
If you clapped for the NHS and key workers, now it’s time to ACT. Read More‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ are the opening words of a poem by the celebrated poet Robert Frost. Whilst he was writing about his own personal life’s journey, …
‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’. The question is which one will we take? Read More‘We hope this pandemic will teach us that in normal times we must build up our supplies, our infrastructure, and our institutions to be able to deal with crises. We …
We don’t have to accept a corporate blueprint for a future world. The alternative is to forge a collective vision based on solid values and publicly provided foundations to enable human and planetary flourishing. Read MorePhil Armstrong, University of Southampton Solent and York College 2020 1. Norwood Hanson: Is the sun going around the Earth or the Earth going around the sun? Norwood …
Norwood Hanson, Paul Krugman and MMT Read MoreMarcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer and academic sceptic philosopher. He wrote ‘The Safety of the People shall be the Highest Law.’ This week, it was reported that …
Rishi Sunak is wrong. ‘Righting the ship’ won’t require any taxpayers to ‘chip in’ to cover the cost of his spending plans – not now, in the future, or ever. Read More