Standing at a crossroads in time
‘Democracy is not just a counting up of votes, it is a counting up of actions.’ Howard Zinn Do you remember when Andy Haldane, the Chief Economist at the Bank …
Standing at a crossroads in time Read MoreTag: Public services
Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci In the week that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced …
Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead. Read MoreWhat’s the choice?
Do we accept there is no alternative to our rotten economic system or demand something different? Let’s re-examine our values and use our imaginations to redefine how we work and …
What’s the choice? Read MoreIs the public purse empty?
The government wants you to believe that the public purse is empty and needs replenishing to set the finances straight. It’s not and it doesn’t. Time to challenge the lie …
Is the public purse empty? Read MoreWhile a governmental blame game distracts the public, what democracy we had is being further hollowed out.
Before it’s too late let’s not let the window of opportunity pass us by. The government is us, or it could be. As many of us sit in our living …
While a governmental blame game distracts the public, what democracy we had is being further hollowed out. Read MoreLet’s not let the debt doomsters rule the roost!
Doing so will come at a huge human and planetary cost. In this week’s news the train crash economics of neoliberalism continues to thunder on. The government, still ensconced in …
Let’s not let the debt doomsters rule the roost! Read More“Whatever great meaningful and impactful work we are doing now is only the beginning, let’s keep moving forward for a better tomorrow.” – George Stamatis
According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, whose fiscal sustainability report was published last month, the news is bad. In its Executive Summary, it noted that the UK was on …
“Whatever great meaningful and impactful work we are doing now is only the beginning, let’s keep moving forward for a better tomorrow.” – George Stamatis Read MoreWhat 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.
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 More“Either you guarantee employment, or you guarantee there will be unemployment.” – Pavlina Tcherneva
This 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 MoreWe 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.
“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 More