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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Submission to the Special Legislative Committee on reforming Canada’s Police Act: 1"My area of expertise is as a political philosopher. As such my role is less to provide answers than to ask often...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe greatest debt crisis in history is upon usThe debt burden crushing poor countries will not be alleviated until creditors in rich countries are made to give up...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Black, grey, blue, green: how serious can Boris Johnson be?A serious UK government, willing to put enough funding mechanisms in place, does have the agencies available to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'Tseuf tseuf' waiting to go: the English legislator and national disasterWhat does it take to make packed public transport, bars and football stadiums, perfectly compatible with clean air...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisAs COP26 nears, why is the UK giving a tax break to fossil fuel companies?The new ‘super deduction’ incentivises further extraction at a time when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: OpinionAs COVID brings migrants home, how can Nepal reintegrate returning workers?Money from overseas makes up a quarter of GDP, and the effects of the pandemic are putting a squeeze on an already...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisCOVID-19 is here to stay. Now we must redesign our economies around itIt’s possible to imagine a world where vaccines are distributed fairly and the disease is eradicated everywhere. But...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The dangerous illusions of an EU ‘vaccine passport’Is the push for a vaccine certificate driven by an economic desire to boost travel and tourism rather than the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s justice minister caught in a conflict of interestFacing action over corruption allegations, President Macron’s ministers are out to neuter the messenger
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin AmericaThis year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionLabour must learn to adapt to a world of Tory state activismThe dividing line is no longer austerity versus anti-austerity, but a struggle over who should benefit from the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisRishi Sunak said he’d protect the vulnerable. So why is he making them pay?The chancellor is fuelling a two-tier recovery, where the winners from the pandemic prosper at the expense of everyone else
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCOVID-19 has made the super-rich richer. It’s time for a billionaire wealth taxThe US’s billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsNumber of private tenants facing rent shortfall leaps by nearly 50% in pandemicCampaigners call for Rishi Sunak to increase rent support to end the rent debt crisis and prevent rising homelessness
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe failed state: Texas’s power crisis is the result of decades of free market policiesLast week’s disaster reveals just how far Republican leadership has pillaged the state for its own gain
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsStamp duty holiday leading to homelessness, new figures suggestExclusive: Tenants’ rights activists tell openDemocracy that some landlords are trying to cash in by speeding up evictions
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionAnother ‘Roaring Twenties’? Only if the rich pay their fair shareGovernments must take urgent action to tackle the twin problems of runaway debts and soaring inequality, before they...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘One of the problems in France is distrust’, Macron warns. Why might that be?When it comes to selling things that kill, France is the rising star, when it comes to those that save lives, such...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow Joe Biden can turbocharge the US’s green transformationThe new president has put climate action at the top of his agenda. But with a few tweaks to existing institutions he...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe GameStop frenzy shows why we can’t let casino capitalism drive the COVID recoveryIt’s time to call the speculation that powered the GameStop surge what it really is: socially useless gambling that...
