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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

09/02/2021. London, United Kingdom. Health Secretary Matt Hancock before Parliament announcement. Department of Health. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Why Do Tories Love Crypto?

Peter Howson

Because the winner takes all and the poor get nothing.

The Bastani Factor

How Britain Starved Ireland

Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]

Opinion

A photograph of Kim Kardashian pointing to herself with long wavy brown hair and a green turtleneck

Self-Help Culture Is a Lie – But Its Opposite Is Just As Bogus

Daisy Schofield

Failure evangelists are just preaching a different flavour of hyper-individualism.

Opinion

NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit

Rachel Connolly

Fabergé eggs, bright yellow cars, monogrammed airplanes, the list goes on.

Opinion

It’s Time to Abolish the Family

Judy Thorne

Why should romantic relationships monopolise care?

Downstream

Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown

How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.

Analysis

Anti-government demonstrators hold a poster representing a coffin of a victim of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the message "30,000 deaths, so what?", during a protest named "Amazonas for Democracy" in Manaus, Brazil

Ending Vaccine Apartheid Won’t End the Pandemic

James Meadway

We promised the Global South 2.1bn vaccines. Just 4% have been delivered.

Opinion

Influencer Molly-Mae Hague at a PrettyLittleThing event in New York

Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

We don't all have ‘the same 24 hours in a day.’

Opinion

A man flagellates himself before an altar

Nobody Cares What Your New Year Resolutions Are, So You Might As Well Do Something You Enjoy

The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.

Opinion

Is there such a thing as a good landlord? Britain is being held hostage by a class of people whose only talent is owning stuff, and extracting money from people who don’t. Rents have doubled in the decade following the financial crisis, and the average house price is between 8 and 14 times the average […]

Analysis

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The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson

Why Do Tories Love Crypto?

Peter Howson

How Britain Starved Ireland

NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit

Rachel Connolly

It’s Time to Abolish the Family

Judy Thorne

Ending Vaccine Apartheid Won’t End the Pandemic

James Meadway

Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

Nobody Cares What Your New Year Resolutions Are, So You Might As Well Do Something You Enjoy

Rachel Connolly

Was Jesus Christ a Socialist Revolutionary?

How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial

Why Owning Stuff Is Better Than Working

Dave’s Latest Album Demands That Black British Music Be Taken Seriously

Kojo Koram

Why Do Leftwing Women Disappear From Politics in Their 30s?

Joana Ramiro

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Tag: capitalism

The Plan Is to Make You Permanently Poorer | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson

Why Do Tories Love Crypto?

Peter Howson

How Britain Starved Ireland

Self-Help Culture Is a Lie – But Its Opposite Is Just As Bogus

Daisy Schofield

NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit

Rachel Connolly

It’s Time to Abolish the Family

Judy Thorne

Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown

Ending Vaccine Apartheid Won’t End the Pandemic

James Meadway

Molly-Mae Hague Just Exposed Influencer Culture for the Thatcherite Poison It Is

Anna Cafolla

Nobody Cares What Your New Year Resolutions Are, So You Might As Well Do Something You Enjoy

Rachel Connolly

Was Jesus Christ a Socialist Revolutionary?

How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial

Why Are All the Baddies Disabled?

The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People

Disability Politics Are Anticapitalist Politics

Ellen Clifford

Why Owning Stuff Is Better Than Working

Dave’s Latest Album Demands That Black British Music Be Taken Seriously

Kojo Koram

Why Do Leftwing Women Disappear From Politics in Their 30s?

Joana Ramiro

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