The perfect storm
This is a Twitter thread by Tanja Bueltmann, Professor of History who holds a Chair in International History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She specialises in the history of migration and diaspora, particularly...
Tagged: Richard Murphy
The currency question
And when the Westminster ‘No’ often doesn’t mean ‘No’. Unionists insisting Scotland would not be allowed another independence referendum have recently appeared to change their tune, now wanting to decide the franchise for indyre2...
Fair play “a concept beyond his embrace”.
“Johnson’s behaviour is deliberate. It is intended to be offensive. He thinks cheating acceptable. He is deliberately contemptuous. And fair play is a concept that appears beyond his embrace.” An excoriating piece on Johnson...
Tory manifesto a promise of inaction to undermine role of government
“But what this means is that the absence of policy in this [Tory] manifesto is not accidental. Nor is it solely to do with the paralysis of Brexit. Rather, it’s choice. What we have...
The Green New Deal: how to make it happen
Summary by Richard Murphy of an ambitious plan to tackle climate breakdown at the scale and speed set out by science. Follow the steps here. You can download the full paper here.
