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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Uneconomics guide to money creationIn it's latest book, "Where does money come from?", the New Economics Foundation provides one of the sharpest...
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Published in: HomeA cyclist's-eye-view of the City shows where power lies - and how we might change itThe experience of cycling in a City - a space that has now been taken over by the car, with some segregated...
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Published in: HomeThe shock-and-awe of mega sports eventsHow mega sporting events bring the logic of war to host-city governance. The example of the football World Cup in...
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Published in: HomeThe adventures of Conan the Librarian
What is a public library for? Costa coffee and "bums on seats"? or the promise of a better world? The managerialised...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain needs a transformative budgetBritain is on the brink of a double-dip recession. She needs to begin the fundamental reshaping of her political...
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Published in: openEconomyCredit rating agencies: the wrong institutions for public judgement
Whether the ratings agencies get this or that decision right or wrong - they were probably right in the case of the...
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Published in: openEconomyHigh pay: what Machiavelli would have recommended a politician do
It's true that high pay for bosses serves no purpose except keeping them (and their headquarters) in the country....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime for Tax Transparency in the UK
In the wake of the PAC report on HMRC's failure to tax corporations fairly, what other solutions might there be to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain's policing: Kettling 2.0 and the Olympic State of ExceptionKettling, a controversial tactic used to contain protestors, now has an ugly sister: the steel police cordon,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBell Pottinger: Britain's latest lobbying scandal
Another month, another lobbying scandal in the UK. The last led to the resignation of the defence secretary. This...
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Published in: HomeWhere the devil can't go, an extract
Londoners have mostly welcomed the recent Polish immigrant community in their midst, although most do not know them...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho comes there? UK border controls give a new meaning to privatisation
UK governments talk loudly about controlling immigration but seem unable even to count in who visits Britain. Now,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK#OccupyLondon - the start of a new general interest
Occupy London is fundamentally different in nature to the occupations in Madrid and Greece. It is small, but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThree thoughts on #Occupy
I’ve not been to Wall Street. I don’t have to. Though separated from New York by an ocean, half a planet and a...
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Published in: openEconomyPay at the top: to each according to results? to social contribution? ... or to systemic privilege?
Are high executive and banking pay related to results? Or to social value added? Or does executive compensation...
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Published in: HomeCarter and Blair: two tales of post-power hope
When President Carter addressed a crowd of well-wishers in London, the unavoidable comparison was with the...
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Published in: openEconomyPlanning at Wormwood Scrubs illustrates the flaws of English local democracy
England is about to have its land-use planning system overhauled ... if the platoons of Tories against the proposals...
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Published in: HomeTaxation: revenue maximisation vs. the politics of envy
Is there any reason to set top tax rates at anything but the rate which maximises government revenues? And what is...
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Published in: openEconomyTaxing the rich: 50p is too little
Michael Bullen argued against Jeremy Fox's charge of "blackmail by the wealthy" with respect to the campaign in...
