Mini-Conference at St Andrews on the Terrace – Conference Friday 9 /Saturday 10 October Save the date for a fascinating, involving conference and workshop. You can book and pay for the conference using Eventbrite registration Satrs conference intro leaflet to print for friends See the final list of confirmed speakers At last year’s conference Democracy, […]
Archives for August 2015
The Death of God and the War on Terror
Link to the video Summary This article attempts to give a flavour of a videoed talk by Terry Eagleton “The Death of God and the War on Terror” which was made at the How the Light Gets In festival in Wales in May this year and which is taken from ideas in his 2014 book […]
Naomi Klein on not looking.
Larger PDF version of How we look away from climate change diagram Here is a model of what Klein identifies as the reasons we use for not looking at climate change in her recent book “This changes everything”
TPPA progress harder from now on
Updated 4/8/2015 With the failure of the Hawaii TPPA round to make a deal, the next round of TPPA negotiations is going to be more difficult, as well as more risky for the government. Internationally the Canadian government has been dissolved pending an election in October and all TPPA governments are managing widespread public concerns. […]
Form follows function for the Cooperative Bank
Printable version Last Thursday at its AGM the NZ Co-operative Bank invited shareholders to adopt a new by constitution formalising the bank’s profit sharing arrangements, New Zealand ownership and representation arrangements. The changes have unfolded over several years. To 2012 and under the leadership of Girol Karacaoglu, (who has since moved to become chief economist […]
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