Brian Landers is the author of "Empires Apart", www.empiresapart.com, a history of American and Russian imperialism, 2009, and has been a Board memeber of private and public sector organizations including Penguin Books, Waterstone's, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Prison Service.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Co-op movement has announced a "Revolution", but will it develop a politics?The Co-operative movement has announced a "Revolution" and aims to treble its membership and become a force to be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWarning: they want us to pay the private sector to make a profit from NHS
Why does the Health Secretary think that the private sector needs a subsidy to be able to enter the market for...
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Published in: openEconomyNations must be allowed to go bust, and the nineteenth century histories of Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria remind us that lenders will cope just fiine
George Soros writes in the FT that the EU is making two mistakes: "One is that they are determined to avoid defaults...
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Published in: openEconomyCorporations are only human - at least in law
The legal privileges of the corporation are social, not natural. It is dangerous to slip into the thought that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain's 'Squeezed Middle' defined: 11 million facing a triple crunch
A new report exposes what the UK's working but not well off millions are up against - a triple beating.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFairness and the cost of life for the poor in Britain
Unto those who have, more will be given' may be familiar. But do those who have less actually themselves give to the...