Securitise the Queen
Image: Doug Wheller Brett Scott is a writer and consultant working in alternative finance and financial activism. He blogs at and tweets as Times of economic stress call for creative…
The economic collapse: four points and a question
1) S&P aren't the point. Let's be clear: there are serious economic problems in America. But we shouldn't take the Standards & Poor downgrading as a serious economic problem in…
Aid commitments – NGOs biggest success, and their biggest failure.
Twice in recent weeks, question time audiences have asked why the government is ring fencing aid budgets whilst cutting the NHS. This at once shows the monumental effectiveness of development…
Machines of Loving Grace (and their Masters).
A shorter version of this article was originally published by ORGzine. If there was a fault with the first episode of Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines of Loving…
Why we should be talking about Land Value Tax
The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city ... watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more…