Tag: inequality
Analysis: Who is the Rewilding Movement’s Green Utopia For?
by Maozya Murray
Downstream: The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson
In 2011, while working as a City trader, Gary Stevenson joined the ultra rich with a single bonus cheque. Not long after he was named one of Citibank’s highest performing traders worldwide. Stevenson made millions for his employer by betting on one thing: that the British and American economies would fail to recover from the […]
Analysis: Why Do Tories Love Crypto?
by Peter Howson
Feature: How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want
by Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin
Opinion: A Few New Bus Lanes Won’t ‘Level Up’ the UK – But Upping the Minimum Wage Might
by Ell Folan
Analysis: Poor Brits Live Much Shorter Lives. What Can We Do?
by Ell Folan
Opinion: The Land-Hoarding Elite Should Be Paying the Rest of Us Rent
by Philip Goff
Opinion: Shoplifters of the World, Unite!
by Seth Wheeler
Opinion: The Tories’ New ‘Community-Powered’ Plan Is a Cynical Power Grab
by Bertie Russell, Keir Milburn & Kai Heron
Opinion: The Tories’ Levelling Up Agenda is Just Thatcherism for Towns
by Joe Duffy
Downstream: Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
Downstream: Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton
A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]
Analysis: The Rich Are Skipping the Vaccine Queue. What Are We Going to Do About It?
by James Meadway
Novara Live: Racism Review: Spiked
Munira Mirza is to lead the government’s racism review. Are the Tories trolling anti-racism campaigners? Plus, Joshua Virasami on the police crackdown on BLM protestors, Laura Pidcock on shielding, and Matt Hancock claims Marcus Rashford’s victory as his own.