Shocking story from Democracy Now in the US of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who...
Guest Articles
Part of our regular series highlighting the wonderful work of our friends @ Positive Money.
Regulatory capture – the process by which government bodies come under the thumb of the industries they are set up...
While the rich countries were most affected by the global economic crisis, there are signs of recovery. Although India and...
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) gave evidence in the European Parliament this week about the effect of the Troika...
Up to 70,000 people face bailiff action over council tax arrears, following government cuts in council tax benefit for the poorest families in...
A MAN forced to give up work with heart problems had his benefits axed for failing to complete a capability...
(from my good friends @ Positive Money and very relevant to todays Headline story about benefit scrounging banks) When banks...
.. Both a Tory minister and a Labour shadow have this week made the latest in a long line of...
.. As Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, recently pointed out, the UK is at bottom...
.. Iceland has sent four former directors of its bank Kaupthing to prison for fraud. But the chances of similar...
.. There is something distasteful about well-paid media executives overseeing stories exposing “shirkers” and benefit fraud – fraud which, as...
.. Like many others I flinched with embarrassment when the Chancellor visited China. George Osborne sublimated his dislike of Marxist-Leninism...
.. The richest 85 people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion – or half...
.. The global crash of 2008 kicked off a furious debate in the UK about whether or not the City...
.. “It takes me about two hours to assemble a team of financial geeks and lawyers to devise a product...
.. Thousands of Brits are turning to payday loans to hide rent or mortgage problems, new research shows. The research,...
.. It seems that Jeremy Misprint Hunt is trying to pretend that his planned law making it easier to close...
.. Until the late 19th century much of our city space was owned by private landlords. Squares were gated, streets...
Britons woke in their millions to find the Daily Mail’s promised Ukipocalypse was, if anything, an understatement. Bulgarians have been...
Given the abject failure of the Neo-liberal policy offer, why has it persisted as the dominant approach to European policymaking...
The mature economies of the modern world, particularly the United States and Britain, are often described as "financialised". The term...