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They’re not all magical and entangled. These fungi will kill you.
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MMT strips way the veil of neo-liberal ideology that mainstream macroeconomists use to restrict government spending. We learn that these constraints are purely voluntary and have no intrinsic status. This …
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A new era of antagonism between the US and China has emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is seen in the mounting rhetoric of "strategic competition" escalating military expenditures and efforts at alliance building such as AUKUS. Increasingly important are the US's efforts to contain China economically, as seen in the US CHIPS Act that restricts exports of US and Taiwanese semiconductors and advanced technological components. However, at the heart of worsening relations between the US and China is a paradox: the US and China are integrated into global capitalism and deeply interdependent in processes of accumulation. The major fault line of international antagonism no longer lies between the capitalist world and its external enemies as in the last Cold War, rather it is between the two major capitalist powers.
It was this puzzle of antagonism amidst integration, that I sought to unknot in my Honours thesis in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Dear Fellow Signers of the Declaration of Independence:
Now that our noble document is complete, it is time to address the elephant in the room: my name is much bigger than everyone else’s. I’ll be the first to admit that it is absolutely massive. Yet I must also speak this self-evident truth: it is not entirely my fault.
The fact is I thought we were all doing big signatures. That’s what I was told. Do none of you remember Thomas Jefferson—hopped up on parchment fumes and cheap barleywine—running around telling everyone our “sigs” had to be “freakin’ huge”? Then I go first, and everybody bursts out laughing like I did something foolish.
I hereby call on my brethren of the Second Continental Congress—those who I know to be defenders of liberty, progress, and the values of the Enlightenment, to which we are all fan-boyishly devoted for some reason—to publicly stand up and say everybody told John Hancock we were doing big sigs.
In 2012, as the health service was being subjected to another round of disastrous reform, a think tank was founded which aimed to push back against this effort ‘to dismantle many of the founding principles of the NHS’. In the years since, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) has become one of […]
The levels of overload on the NHS and the increased mortality of patients and health workers experienced during the peak moments of the pandemic offered an uncannily familiar experience to those of us who grew up with classic BBC sci-fi series such as The Day of the Triffids (1981) or Survivors (1975–7, 2008–9). In my […]
The National Health Service (NHS) and many public healthcare systems around the world are in a state of crisis. For years they’ve been allowed to deteriorate — for long enough, in fact, that plenty of powerful forces now see an opportunity to pursue profitable reforms. When people think of private healthcare, their minds naturally turn to […]
Our National Health Service (NHS) is in trouble. Over 7 million people in England are languishing on waiting lists. Cancer patients are experiencing delays to diagnosis and treatment. UK outcomes are well behind those in other comparable countries. And when emergency strikes, ambulances are struggling to get to people in time to save their life. […]
One of Labour’s most powerful campaigning weapons has been the question aimed at the Tories: is the NHS safe in Tory hands? But, as the electorate looks like putting Keir Starmer into No. 10, is it time to ask that question of Labour itself? Starmer and his Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s embrace of the […]