Next year my partner Jackie will turn sixty. For most of her working life that had been the age of eligibility for a state pension the OECD says is the lowest in the developed world. But as you may have … Read More »
Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism … a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation … the pillorying of the world’s most famous whistle-blower … Welcome to my reads of the month. * … Read More »
In other circumstances John Smith’s unwavering class analysis of the linked themes of Brexit and Labour’s December defeat would have been in my January reads post. In the event, by the time it came to my attention I’d already decided … Read More »
ONE MORNING in the summer of 2007 saw me in my daughter’s Edinburgh flat, taking in the wisdoms of Sir Jonathan Porritt as set out in an Independent piece on saving the environment. The plain truth, he was giving me … Read More »
this post also features on offguardian Paleontologists tell us homo sapiens sapiens has walked the earth for 140,000 years, 130,000 of them as hunter gatherers. Social animals, poorly equipped for solo survival, we foraged in small bands. Any surplus wealth … Read More »
Take Australia … *
My December Reads included a piece by Jan Oberg, which I introduced as “capturing my sense of fear and outrage on what has been done to Syria in the risible name of humanitarianism”. He’s done it again with a FB … Read More »
I’ve been guilty of this myself so know what I’m talking about here. *