In 2017, having already implemented swingeing cuts to people on benefits, former Chancellor George Osborne decided that families should be punished a little bit more. He put in place a limit to the...
As a new £10 note comes into circulation today, the Independent reports that, thanks to Brexit, it is “15 percent smaller, and 16 percent less valuable” than its predecessor. Worth just £8.60...
After a long build-up, unsurprisingly, Syriza swept Greek elections this weekend, taking 149 of 300 seats in parliament. The far-left party has formed a coalition with the conservative Independent...
The UK has entered a lethal age of austerity, right in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics. As elite athletes from all over the world to descend upon London to compete in the most-watched sporting...
Yesterday, 255 affiliates of the progressive organization, Moveon.org, held rallies throughout the United States to protest recent debt ceiling deal cuts and call for “jobs not cuts.” Most of...
Apparently the 80s are back in vogue, again. With a Tory government sitting in Parliament--or rather, holidaying in Tuscany as David Cameron was--rioting is again occurring on the streets of London....
The last few years have been a tumultuous time in Greek politics, especially after the debt “crisis” of 2010 and the subsequent EU/IMF bailout. Protests and riots on the streets of Athens have...
We’re all in this together. We must share the sacrifice. The austerity narratives of deficit reduction are everywhere. Yet the facts show that this is a false story deployed cynically to...