David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. He contributes regularly to openDemocracy and has written for The Guardian, The Herald, The Age and Red Pepper. His most recent book is ‘Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us’ (Manchester University Press, 2020).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Catalonia and postfascism
A legacy that never went away has risen to the surface in Catalonia. And it explains why the independence movement...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTwo neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOne law for the poor at Grenfell Tower
In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served for the victims of the Grenfell fire? Or are our laws...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGovernment austerity demands that we die within our means
Most people still don't fully understand the true scale of the human cost that government imposed austerity has unleashed.
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Published in: HomeTrump’s first one hundred days: corporate rights trump human rights
Trump's administration has disdain for all rights, except, of course, the rights of corporations. Over the past 100...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChilcot's blind spot: Iraq War report buries oil evidence, fails to address motive
When the UK invaded, Iraq had nearly a tenth of the world's oil reserves -- and government documents "explicitly...