Three Come Forth
A trio of leaders of organisations that have emerged as responses to the Crash talk to The Mint about the progress so far and the future outlook. Maeve Cohen, Fran …
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Whoops apocalypse: analysis or parody? Discuss
Who knew that the flap of a cardboard box full of desk contents could herald a hurricane that would tear through global politics. Frances Coppola follows the money. “Do you …
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The Lehman Triology – More Brechtian than Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, the marxist dramatist and innovator, believed by moving away from sentimental, emotive theatre, he could allow theatre goers to think. He called this theory of distancing the audience …
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Shut Down the Business School
Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. Little seems to …
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Barnstorming Success
Time for a cuppa: but no copper to be seen. A north Lancashire community has built a hyper-fast broadband network with a shovel and a nice cup of tea. Life …
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We live in a time of perpetual ersatz crises. Discuss in 280 characters. As gamers in the fourth industrial revolution we’re always on the cusp of crisis. You know, the …
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Good work if you can get it
Interview – Matthew Taylor Chief Executive of the Royal Society of the Arts, Matthew Taylor, last year led a review for the Government to consider how employment practices needed to change …
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Caring and Sharing
Interview: Juliet Schor Since 2010 Juliet Schor has been studying the recent phenomenon that is the sharing economy. She first rose to prominence in the 1990s with her bestselling book …
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Will turkeys vote for Christmas?
The British Academy doesn’t seem the obvious place to start a revolution. Nevertheless, Professor Colin Mayer is leading a research project there to rethink the nature of corporations and hence, …
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Basic Instincts
The value of a human life becomes clear. At last my old colleague, Felix Price, deigned to visit me last week after almost two years of retirement. I have to …
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