11 November, 2011 // Category: Gender equality
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. In the second part of a two part interview he...
10 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, Religion, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the second of a two-part interview he discusses his book...
09 November, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Religion
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. In the first part of a two part interview he speaks...
08 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the first of a two-part interview he discusses the book with...
07 November, 2011 // Category:
Students will once again take to the streets on Wednesday 9th November to continue the fight against fees and cuts. This time we are marching to the City of London to show our anger at the very financial system that has instructed the political classes to smash the last vestiges of the welfare...
04 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Media, Politics
Former Guardian leader writer and regular political columnist Julian Glover recently left the paper to take up a post as speechwriter to David Cameron. Glover would probably be the first to accept that, given the nature of his political views, his departure will not necessarily be lamented by all...
04 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Health
Last month UNICEF released a report into child well-being in the UK, as a follow-up to their study in 2007, which ranked the UK in bottom place out of 21 developed countries for the wellbeing of children. Samia Aziz spoke to Agnes Nairn, who wrote the report, about her findings. Nairn is also the...
03 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Health, International, Politics
In the development business, our greatest ambition is to put ourselves out of a job. The opposite seems to be true of the G20. At least, that’s one explanation for their aversion to tackling the underlying problems of the global economy, which can only result in the world lurching from one...
01 November, 2011 // Category:
As the Durban Conference on Climate Change (COP 17) continues, we present the views of an international group of climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a 500-600 word response to the following question: The current...
01 November, 2011 // Category:
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Here he discusses the composition of the Occupy Wall Street movement, his hopes...
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