The Ashcroft affair underlines why taxation and citizenship – for persons physical and moral – need to be closely tied

Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.

While inconsistency with respect to climate change runs so deep in government policy, how can we expect people to behave differently?

Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would be likely to work to the detriment of the West’s and Israel’s goals.

The UK Shadow Chancellor's proposal to offer the public a discount to buy shares in banks taken into state ownership over the last two years

The passage between Scylla and Charibdis in the ocean of currencies implies neither euro nor drachma, but more democratic control over the economy

The Boston Tea Party's history of trying to properly separate government and business holds serious lessons for today's partiers

Today's big philanthropists understand the power of politics, and Michael Edwards should give them more credit

By giving people permission to dream, space to debate, chance to learn, opportunities to contribute to righting deep-rooted wrongs, Brazil is creating a nation of informed, politically engaged citizens. The UK can learn from its example.

British conservatives claim that the tax system penalises marriage and that this is responsible for social break down. Simon McMahon finds the first claim fair, but the second less so

Rediscovering and reshaping a world in which husbands were house-bound and families were free, what are the skills and virtues needed for a life of radical voluntary domestic simplicity?

Banks make money. Literally, money is their output. But social guarantees are their input. Should they be the ones making money?

Industrial policy aimed at promoting knowledge work should be welcomed because of the particular nature of the work: more humane, long-termist, co-operative, democratic and egalitarian

Michael Edwards introduces his new book, "Small change, Why business won't change the world"

We've survived the economic crisis, but global governance failed. Davos 2010 should be about fixing it. Are we ready for de-Hayekification? From Zadek's blog.

Ever since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important is that civilisation is a process of cultural exchange, and hybridity is a source of the truly human in the form of new meanings

The author looks forward to the 'Kindle Era', predicting that the Kindle will facilitate self publishing online, and so break publishing houses' 'commerical' oriented grip on what can be published

The traditional interpretation of Scrooge is of an avaricious miser graced by visitations which convert him into an enthusiast for Christmas. But from a Keynesian point of view, Scrooge is a hoarder with an obsession for maintaining almost complete liquidity in deflationary times like the early 1840’s. Even then, Dickens recognised the problem and understood the cure…

Issue sovereign debt for climate investment. From www.zadek.com