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Barclays – Banking on hunger
Barclays - Banking on Hunger As if the tax evasion wasn’t bad enough (they paid corporation tax of 4.5% last year) Barclays are up for a public eye public shame award (you can vote for them – or one of...
View ArticleThe growing power of corporations?
In the last seven years the revenues and profits of the world’s largest corporations have grown at twice the rate of the GNI of the world’s largest economies (and a lot faster than the flat-lining Euro...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Renata Salecl’s The Paradox of Choice….
In this RSA Animate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice Summary Especially since the collapse of Communism, more people have tended...
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Summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity – Chapter One
Chapter One – Emancipation The chapter begins with Marcuse’s complaint that, by the mid 1970s, most people didn’t see the need to be liberated from society, fewer were prepared to act on that wish,...
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The World Wealth Report 2013
The World Wealth Report reports on trends in the wealth of HNWIs – Or High Net Wealth Individuals. These are individuals with $1million or more in investable assets. You have to sign up to be able to...
View ArticleC.V. building – another individualised ‘solution’ to systemic contradictions
As part of our college tutorial programme I was recently required to show my students this ‘monster guide to writing a C.V.’ ; I’ve been reading way to much Bauman recently to not subject this to some...
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Information is power (and money and freedom)…
another cartoon that just has to be shared…
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Work in Low Pay, No Pay Britain
In this latest Thinking Allowed podcast on ‘Low pay, no pay’ Britain Laurie Taylor talks to the sociologist, Tracy Shildrick, about her prize winning study of individuals and families who are living in...
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TTIP – Putting Profit before People
The government is about to sign up to a treaty which will would allow companies like Sports Direct (just a random example) to sue a future government for increasing the minimum wage, if introducing...
View ArticleThe rise of the yummy mummies, and why you shouldn’t tolerate them
The rise of the ‘yummy mummy': popular conservativism and the neoliberal maternal in contemporary British culture Jo Littler This is a brief post summarising (much of it paraphrased) the above article,...
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The Corporate Takeover of Education? Pearson’s Rapidly Expanding Control of...
Amidst the other aspects of the privatisation of education (Marketisation, Academies, Free Schools, Apprenticeships, Tuition Fees etc.) you may have missed this aspect! Pearson PLC is a FTSE 100...
View ArticleJoel Spring – Education Networks: Power, Wealth, Cyberspace and The Digital Mind
A summary of one thread within this excellent book…. The DFES (2013) has an overwhelmingly positive view of the future role of ICT in schools and colleges, noting that it has transformed other sectors,...
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Barclays – Banking on hunger
Barclays - Banking on Hunger As if the tax evasion wasn’t bad enough (they paid corporation tax of 4.5% last year) Barclays are up for a public eye public shame award (you can vote for them – or one of...
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In the last seven years the revenues and profits of the world’s largest corporations have grown at twice the rate of the GNI of the world’s largest economies (and a lot faster than the flat-lining Euro...
View ArticleKeynes vs Hayek Rap and a neoliberal water balloon analogy
Here’s a good couple of video resource for teaching basic economics – The Keyne’s Hayek rap (there’s a part two too) I also like this ‘water ballon’ analogy for teaching neoliberalism Neoliberalism As...
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