At 11.00am on 3 September 1939 Britain declared war on Nazi Germany.  Within minutes the air raid sirens started wailing.  Panicked civilians reached for the gas masks they had been issued with, and desperately sought shelter from the anticipated onslaught.  A few – mainly middle class suburbanites with gardens, who …

One person is responsible for the devastating spread of Covid-19 through your community.  That person is YOU!  That, at least, is the line that the establishment media has been taking from the very beginning.  As each new problem – largely the result of a failure of planning by the government …

Sunday’s Guardian editorial is no doubt correct when it says that: “It’s too soon to say with any confidence what impact coronavirus will have on the climate emergency. The brakes placed on economic activities of many kinds, worldwide, have led to carbon emission cuts that would previously have been unthinkable: …

You might be forgiven for thinking that the world is in the grip of a SARS-Cov-2 pandemic crisis.  That is only partially true, though.  The real crisis is in the neoliberal system which left us so desperately unprepared to meet what was a known threat.  The UK government’s own Operation …

The defining characteristic of the neoliberal global economy is that nobody is in charge.  Decades of deregulation in the years since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power has resulted in a state of “depolitisisation,” in which governments have retreated from activities deemed to interfere with “the market.”  Even …

If you were looking for a moment when Brexit and the election of Donald Trump became inevitable, you could do a lot worse than going back to 2008 when the neoliberal left chose to bailout Wall Street and the City of London.  The way in which the bailout worked was …

New deliveries of eggs to British supermarkets are being snapped up as quickly as the shelf stackers can get them onto the shelves.  At the same time, tons of eggs are going off in warehouses which currently hold massive stocks of food.  The unexpected reason for this situation, we learn …

It should come as no surprise to learn that most of us are not included in the list of critical workers published by the UK government.  Hedge fund managers, permanent secretaries, members of parliament, corporate CEOs, senior local government managers and the celebrities so beloved of our mainstream media all …

A fifty year old, born in 1970, would have come of age in the years after the financial “Big Bang” which cemented in place the neoliberal global economy.  Its architects – the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – were in their second terms; having seen off the left …

There is nothing quite like queues and empty shelves to sell news stories.  So it is that the UK media have finally got the story that they have been waiting for since SARS-CoV-2 began its 2020 world tour.  Toilet rolls, hand sanitiser and sanitary towels are just a few of …