Is This the Beginning of the End for Labour?
Brexit and Covid should have paved the way for a Labour romp. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories and lost.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/7/2021
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Read more...Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope
Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?
Read more...Reducing Methane Is Crucial for Protecting Climate and Health, and It Can Pay for Itself – Yet Emissions Are Still Rising Fast, A New UN Report Warns
After a long period of fracking boosterism in the US, reducing methane emissions is finally getting the attention it warrants.
Read more...The Tattered Histories of Possible Future Ambassadors….Like Rahm Emanuel
A surprising number of ambassadors at prominent posts are patraonge picks. And who gets rewarded for what isn’t pretty.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/6/2021
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Read more...‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver
Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?
Read more...Why Rich Parents Have Rich Children
Looking at the channels through which the rich preserve their advantages across generations.
Read more...California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License
An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.
Read more...Jared Holst: Getting Kinky for the Sake of Data
Apple is now promising to give users more control over who gets their data. But will they make it more seductive to give it away?
Read more...When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution
Green organizations are not created equal. Naming some of the leading greenwashers, starting with the Nature Conservancy.
Read more...Covid ‘Doesn’t Discriminate by Age’: Serious Cases on the Rise in Younger Adults
As Covid deaths and contagion is falling in the US (but rising globally), it’s a mistake for the young to dismiss risks.
Read more...India Just Became Latest Country to Approve Use of Ivermectin to Treat Covid-19
There are now more than 20 countries on the planet that are using the off-patent anti-parasite drug against Covid-19.
Read more...Michael Hudson Q&A in Webinar on 4000 Years of Money and Debt
The Q&A from a Michael Hudson talk on money, debt, and economic orthodoxy.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2021
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