The life of the elderly in Venezuela is spent in queues and with the worry of stretching out money to buy food. They say they want to die of old age and not of hunger. Many of the older adults in...
Iran, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, began to slowly reopen its economy yesterday by easing travel restrictions and reopening businesses. This decision, made against the...
Turns out there is a magic money tree after all, or perhaps new Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been delving down the back of a really big sofa somewhere in the Treasury building. Austerity, the watchword...
How would you feel about working fewer than 40 hours a week? Most workers' first reaction to hearing this is “yes!” because who wants to work more hours than needed? But this isn’t about...
Venezuela does not just have two presidents that co-exist, it also has two currencies. Politics in the Caribbean country has a significant influence on the social and economic aspects, which...
Another Friday found me participating in the Climate Strike protest of the town I study in. Another gathering of younger and older people. The same chants with the familiar warm-blooded passion of...
In 1972, the Indian state of Maharashtra was stricken with a drought that decimated crop yields and put 25 million Indians at risk of starvation. After years of plentiful rainfall and experimentation...
Kevin Albertson, Manchester Metropolitan University The UK Labour Party says it intends to nationalise a number of key public services. The full plans are not yet released but there has been talk of...
This week, the Conservative government declared another General Election, to be held in December, which they hope they will win and which, if they do, they will take as a mandate to force Brexit...
The current financial crisis has been attributed by Maduro to the Venezuelan opposition and foreign actors, including the United States. It is common to hear government officials speak of the...
