06 June, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and was until recently the co-editor of Socialist Register. An expert on the politics of health, Colin has recently written The Plot Against the NHS, co-authored by Stewart...
02 June, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and was until recently the co-editor of Socialist Register. An expert on the politics of health, Colin has recently written The Plot Against the NHS, co-authored by Stewart...
20 December, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Europe
Dr. Nat O’Connor is a Policy Analyst for TASC (Think-Tank for Action on Social Change), an independent think-tank that seeks to combat Ireland’s high level of economic inequality (they have a multi-person blog at www.progressive-economy.ie). James Arnold interviewed him about the economic...
21 October, 2010 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Chancellor George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) is being widely portrayed as a “gamble”: Osborne is “gambling” on the private sector filling the gap left by the withdrawal of public spending. The prospect of this happening is low: Joseph Stiglitz claims that Osborne is “betting it...
19 August, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Health
It has become overwhelmingly clear that the Coalition government is using the deficit and the claimed need for “austerity” as a pretext to greatly boost the power of the private sector vis-à-vis the public sector. The main battlefield in their assault is the NHS. The Guardian reports that...
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