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Wear a Necklace of h(r)ope Side by Side with Me: Young People's Neo-Liberal Future and Popular Culture as Political Action
Protestors in Thailand using the three fingered salute. Essay by Luke Howie and Perri Campbell An Introduction: to the Risks of...
Nathaniel Roach
Jun 19, 202517 min read


Buy, Borrow, Die: Tax, Income and Capital Gains
One of the arguments put forward by rich people for taxing their gains at lower rates than your income is that their capital can move...
Nathaniel Roach
Jun 17, 20253 min read


The Hunger Games Part 1: The Cannon of Silicon Valley
Extract from L. Howie and P. Campbell’s Essay Wear a Necklace of h(r)ope Side by Side with Me Editors note: a particular word has to be...
Nathaniel Roach
Jun 12, 20253 min read


Welfare-to-Work Programmes make Denizens of the Youth
Extract from Alan France’s Essay Austerity and the ‘Workfare State’: The Remaking and Reconfiguration of Citizenship for the Young...
Nathaniel Roach
Apr 16, 20253 min read


Suffer the Children - Foster Care and Medication
Extract from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic If You're a Ward of the State, You Must Be Bipolar The medicating of foster...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 24, 20257 min read


Something's Up: Crimes Without Criminals
Sometimes you start a book, and right from the first page it starts dropping bombs. Extract from Dan Davies' The Unaccountability...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 13, 20253 min read


Fiscal Austerity and the Fallacy of Composition
Extract from Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray & Martin Watts An explanation of why all countries can't rely on fiscal...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 12, 20251 min read


Raising The Minimum Wage
They say raising the minimum wage is bad for the economy. But is it really so clear cut? Does it hurt the economy? So...why mainstream...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 12, 20252 min read


The Holy Fool
The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men . The term implies behaviour "which is caused neither...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 11, 20253 min read


Inequality, Meritocracy and Status Competition
Extracts from Wilkinson & Pickett’s The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 8, 20255 min read


The Absence of a Serious Left Wing Critique of Bureaucracy
David Graeber's refreshing (and often hilarious) look into bureaucracy and culture Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules "The...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 7, 20252 min read


Are Steven Pinker's Numbers Cooked?
A false sense of hope robs us of a sense of urgency when facing a dire situation. What we need is real hope, practical solutions and if...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 6, 20252 min read


Social Work & Market Compliant Behaviour
Extracts from Sanford F. Schram's The Return of Ordinary Capitalism "Yet for those who fail at becoming on their own financially savvy...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 3, 20252 min read


What is the precariat? What do I mean by 'denizen'?
Extract from Guy Standing's The Precariat: A New Dangerous Class "Varieties of precariat However one defines it, the precariat is far...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20253 min read


What Makes The Precariat a Dangerous Class?
A current weakness of the precariat is also potentially it’s greatest strength; it’s diversity. Although members of the precariat share a...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20253 min read


Features of the Precariat
Members of the precariat are many and varied, but they have a few features in common. Extracts from Guy Standing's A Precariat Charter:...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20257 min read


How Positive Psychology Neutralises Critical Politics
Extract from William Davies The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-being "What it all ultimately comes...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20252 min read


Social Others & Luxury Creep
Extract from Rachel Sherman's Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence “Regardless of their struggles, almost all my respondents...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20252 min read


Bureaucracy and Structural Violence
Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue...
Nathaniel Roach
Mar 1, 20255 min read


Bureaucrats With Guns
Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “At this point I can return to...
Nathaniel Roach
Feb 28, 20253 min read
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