Yesterday, for the first time in nearly fifteen years, the potent political force that has so dominated Argentinian politics for decades will not be sworn into the Presidency. For only the third time since the 1940s, Peronism has been defeated at the ballot box. The election of the centre-right Mauricio Macri to the Presidency is […]
It is hard to imagine that as violence from insurgents began to escalate in Iraq in 2012, the country still had greater entrepreneurial optimism than the UK. As Iraqis remained hopeful that their country could still be a good place for people with ideas and aspirations, Brits remained pessimistic. 62% of Iraqis felt the country […]
What is capitalism? A quick glance at its most inflammatory criticism and it is a ‘deadly cancer’, whose existence is a force ‘ravaging the earth’, securing the ‘reckless rule of wealth at the expense of the common good’. For those who reject the system outright, its major crime is that it can account only for […]
In his ambition to move Britain towards a ‘new settlement of responsibility and prosperity’, George Osborne has set himself an impossible task. The last five years have been a masterful contortion act, bending the UK economy into a position no one thought possible. Austerity reigned, yet so too did growth. There was no second recession, […]
As the protesters took to the streets the day after the election, the usual rhetoric emerged. The system had failed. The Tories with their love of the free market were back in power and back in the business of helping those who already have plenty at the expense of those who do not. Such criticism […]
Picture America’s financial child, sitting on the knee of Uncle Sam: her hair falls in angelic ringlets and she chews away at a ‘prosperity’ popsicle. Through the door crashes the wild child, America’s moral offspring. He fires his pistol, ‘filthy literature’ and ‘bootleg’ alcohol in hand. When this cartoon ‘Neglecting the Other Child’ appeared in […]
