This has been a bit lost in the Brexit aftermath. But it is an important guide to the right-wing agenda which triumphed on 23rd June and has been gathering speed since 2010. The Land Registry, the public body which is effectively the state guarantor of land ownership...
This week the New Weather Institute kicks off a series of short arguments for staying in Europe. Europe IN 250 Words is written by a variety of different people covering the subjects they care about and are fearful for, if we should vote Brexit. Our writers will be...
This week in sun drenched Hay on Wye we’ve been talking about rapid transition to a better way of doing things. And by that we mean a way of doing things, a future, that doesn’t actually kill millions of us, impoverish other millions, further enslave...
Professor Saskia Sassen, the great sociologist and geographer, explains why growth has become toxic – and what we should do about it. We have reached an extreme point in the evolution of negative conditions. The language of more – more inequality, more poverty, more...
This is the story of a failure, albeit a highly instructive one. I wrote a couple of months back about the fight between customers of LA Fitness and the new owners of the chain, Pure Gym, who wanted to close the pools and facilities of 30 of the 43 LA Fitness gyms....
