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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: economic crisis

No rest for reds under the beds

“Capitalism in crisis” goes out the cry in Europe and North America. These old-fashioned debates about inequality in wealthy economies fail to connect with the real issues of the modern world.

Published January 10, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, climate change, economic crisis

Durban Decides

While the Durban climate conference struggles to compromise on even the most trivial detail, the world’s great powers cooperate seamlessly in saving the financial system, again.

Published December 1, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, economic crisis, FCCC COP17

HIPC has a new address

Remember those years when rich countries imposed tough conditions on Africa for debt relief? Now the tables are turning.

Published August 10, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged debt, economic crisis

Never let a good crisis go to waste, twice

Yesterday’s panic in the financial markets has conjured a repeat of that sense of things falling apart – with no answers ready from any quarter.

Published July 9, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged economic crisis

Bonus pools plumb depths of injustice

A scandal of global inequality will unfold over coming weeks as investment banks declare their results. Without our taxes, there would have been no bonuses.

Published January 11, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, banks, economic crisis, UK

Third sector threatened with eviction

The international NGO movement missed crucial opportunities in the global financial crisis. New leadership is needed to restore its position in the political process.

Published January 4, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged activism, economic crisis

What if there had been no banking crisis?

Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks.

Published November 2, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged banks, development finance, economic crisis

There’s only one festival of economics

Economic troubles have dominated 2009. The Trento Festival of Economics therefore enjoys pole position in the European festival season. Its imaginative programme Identity and Global Crisis addresses questions affecting us all.

Published May 25, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, economic crisis, festival of economics, italy
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things