Year: 2022
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Reverse redistribution
During the pandemic, innovators and opportunists improvised bold new ways to move money from the state into private hands – it was like the seizure of assets in a socialist…
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Defending the indefensible
This is a guest post from the nice people at Radlett Wire, a local blog that, having spent ten years providing, let’s face it, mostly quite boring information about the…
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From the other end of the modern
Italo Svevo and Adam Tooze (and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng) — So, this post originally started with a bit about how I’d read about Svevo in Franco Moretti’s The…
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Seeing Vincent
Tate Britain, London, 2019.
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Ten times the Labour party stood behind workers in Britain
Actually, there aren’t any. Sorry. — The conventional wisdom is that Labour is the only major socialist party in the world that emerged directly from organised labour—every other important party—in…
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What was it about the urgency of protecting your profits through the carbon transition that first attracted you to the wonder-fuel Hydrogen?
It’s easy to check if a proposed tech solution to the climate crisis is legit or not. Examine the solution; if it looks like it might have been designed to…