Denizen One

A current weakness of the precariat is also potentially it’s greatest strength; it’s diversity. Although members of the precariat share a...

Members of the precariat are many and varied, but they have a few features in common. Extracts from Guy Standing's A Precariat Charter:...

Extract from William Davies The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-being "What it all ultimately comes...

Extract from Rachel Sherman's Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence “Regardless of their struggles, almost all my respondents...

Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue...

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 - 17 July 1790) is seen by some as 'The Father of Economics' or The Father of Capitalism' Extract from David...

Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “At this point I can return to...

Excerpt from 'The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity' by David Graeber and David Wengrow Lahontan: This is why the wicked need...

I know it seems lovely on the surface, but this place hides a lot of dark secrets. So, how bad is inequality in my home town? Extract...

For the record, I am an atheist. Extract from Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History “Not long ago, Julio Diaz, a young social...

Youth: urban nomads The world's youth, more than 1 billion aged between 15 and 25, comprise the largest youth cohort in history, a...

Keith Payne, author of 'The Broken Ladder' Extract from Keith Payne’s The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live...

This is in a public square in Hobart, Tasmania. A doctor from the mainland told me he thought more people should be aware of this stuff....

Extract from Robert Whitaker & Lisa Cosgrove's 'Psychiatry Under the Influence' “As Kriss observed in his article [in which he reviews...

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films Sherlock Holmes 1943 I'm...

Extract from From David Graeber's 'Bullsh*t Jobs' "There are a million ways to make a human feel unworthy. The United States, so often a...

Extract from 'Neo-Liberalism and Austerity: The Moral Economies of Young People’s Health and Well-being'. Edited by Peter Kelly (Editor),...