Fake News and the War on the BBC

The war on the BBC by Britain’s right-wing press has been a constant for the past thirty years, attempting to threaten and control the public broadcaster to yield to their political agenda. The paradox about the mass resignation of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, over accusations of […] Source

Back at the Beating Heart

“Scotland is back at the beating heart of my government.” Keir Starmer, Jul 7, 2024 As the Labour Party faces electoral collapse, it is doubling down on its own worst policies. Rather than changing tack on its constitutional anti-democracy, or veering away from its reactionary social policies or stopping mimicking the far-right, it is doing […] Source

‘Farewell to Growth’, Serge Latouche (2007)

Politicians and the media obsess about ‘economic growth’; but what if that ‘glorious thirty years’ of economic expansion from the 1960s has ended? This landmark text of the degrowth movement explores why growth’s ‘end is nigh’, and why this should be welcomed. To suggest that further economic growth has become near impossible is a ‘secular […] Source