The class divide
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck asks: if Eton can do it why can’t my local comp? It has been 14 weeks since we closed the school gates. In that time I have: conducted …
The class divide Read MorePublished by Promoting Economic Pluralism
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck asks: if Eton can do it why can’t my local comp? It has been 14 weeks since we closed the school gates. In that time I have: conducted …
The class divide Read MoreThis year, for the first time, UK listed companies are required to publish ‘pay ratio’ data in their annual reports. This must show the total earnings of the company’s CEO …
To ‘build back better’, we must tackle executive pay Read MoreLast summer, Theresa May signed into law the U.K.’s ground-breaking target of hitting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 against a backdrop of increasingly vocal Extinction Rebellion protests, school climate strikes, …
A year after pledging to go ‘net-zero’, what has the UK achieved? Read MoreFuture UK trade deals should include enforceable environmental and climate commitments for all parties, while tariffs should be lowered for low carbon goods and services, in order to “strengthen the …
Businesses call for green pledges in trade deals to ‘strengthen UK competitiveness’ Read MoreIt’s hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British …
Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry Read MoreAhead of the 2019 election, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives made moves to brand themselves as “post-austerity”. Big promises to rejuvenate neglected parts of the country won them votes in unexpected places. And …
People living on low incomes already see the economy as ‘rigged’ – so what next after coronavirus? Read MoreQuietly, outside of the public gaze, a revolution has started on Britain’s railways. On March 23, COVID-19 destroyed the railway industry as it had existed for the past 25 years. …
How coronavirus could usher in a new ‘golden age’ of rail travel Read MoreHow can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? The expected path of many is to go to university, forge …
Split: Class Divides Uncovered…. by Covid-19? Read MoreFrom the publisher: Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to …
Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control Read MoreSeasonal workers from Romania were flown into the United Kingdom on a special charter flight on Thursday evening to help fill a huge shortage of workers to pick fruits and vegetables on the …
Eastern Europeans flown in for ‘vital’ jobs on UK, German farms Read More