Ideas, resources, miscellany
On NovaraFM, James Butler, Dawn Foster and Danny Dorling discussed the housing crisis in contemporary Britain.
Professor Danny Dorling, talking about the empty blocks of flats littering cities:
“Housing doesn’t work by the laws of supply and demand.… Read more
Is Boris Johnson encouraging simplistic notions of national identity in an attempt to further his political career?
UK Foreign Secretary Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born in New York City.… Read more
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, talks about the importance of making the effort to distinguish between reality and fiction.… Read more
Why did The Times newspaper place a large colourful photo of the younger members of the British royal family on its front page?… Read more
It’s understandable that people lose hope when their countries are being run for the benefit of 0.01% of the population. Here’s a reminder that this situation is not new, and that hope does bring change.
Dazed from being repeatedly hit over the head with the false message that Brexit and Trump are the “will of the people”, demoralised from misinformation and fake news, it can be easy to admit defeat, to accept the reality designed for us by a small number of psychopath heir-tycoons and their useful idiots in the media and government.… Read more
A photo of an Early Warning Signs of Fascism poster, in the US Holocaust Museum, has gone viral. Find out more about the articles and research it is based upon.… Read more
Mark Fisher, theorist, author, lecturer and blogger, has died. He was the author of ‘Capitalist Realism. Is there no alternative?’.
In his book ‘Capitalist Realism.… Read more
The reports are wrong. David Bowie’s last live performance on stage was not with Alicia Keys at New York’s Hammersmith Ballroom, in 2006.… Read more
