A large part of the over-50s have simply disappeared from the employment figures entirely , and so can't be coerced.
Read More »Ending the social contract
Cutting National Insurance turns us from contributing citizens into mere neo-feudal peasants who live or die at our overlords’ whim.
Read More »A fatally repeated misunderstanding
The obvious absence of an alternative to oil should have been a cause for concern from the outset.
Read More »When cities die
As the economy becomes as overtaxed as it is under-paid, people simply walk away.
Read More »Broken
The UK in particular – and Europe more generally – is already well into the post-peak oil collapse predicted decades ago.
Read More »Beware these siren voices
Interest rates are not going to be cut just because of a “soft landing.” They will only be cut because the economy is in crisis.
Read More »Or, to put it another way
“Tamping down on demand” is an interesting way of describing what amounts to the irreversible deindustrialisation of the continent...
Read More »Politics meets economic uncertainty
We can expect the establishment media to talk up any and every fragment of positive economic news, while wilfully ignoring the negative, right up until the last vote has been counted.
Read More »Blame it on the bourgeoisie
What the neoliberals – and the ownership class they acted for – never understood was that the checks on profiteering were in their own long-term interests.
Read More »Too big to comprehend
Unlike the 1980s, when the UK had several advantages to grow its way out of the self-harm of the early-1980s, this time around Britain has only disadvantages.
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