British governments operating under the neoliberal consensus of the last thirty years or so have avoided developing industrial policy, believing that it is not the job of governments to ‘pick winners’ (see the recent Forgemasters furore), but that markets will select those business and sectors most deserving of reward. This approach has not been universal… [Read more…]
January 10, 2011
There will be a new tourism policy launched by the UK government at some point in the next few months. This will supersede ‘Winning: a strategy for 2012 and beyond’, an artefact of the previous administration, and will complement the new tourism framework that is being produced by Visit Britain. You can see the Culture… [Read more…]
December 30, 2009
I’ve posted on here about tourism and the economic crisis, and have taught about it this year as well. One of the things that strikes me regularly about the crisis is the unsystematic way in which it tends be analysed – one day a report of bankrupt airline, another day stories of industrial action or… [Read more…]
November 10, 2009
This is a recording of Chris Harman, the influential British Marxist and SWP activist who died suddenly this weekend in Egypt, speaking at Marxism 2009 in the summer. Chris will be greatly missed by the left for his activism and inspiration. You can read a tribute to Chris written by Alex Callinicos by clicking… [Read more…]
April 14, 2009
Brendan Nevin has written a gloomy article in the April edition of New Start, looking at the likely impact of the current economic crisis on regeneration policy in the UK. Nevin starts with the (reasonably conservative) prediction that the UK’s annual budget deficit may reach £200bn by 2011, 12% of GDP and the highest in the… [Read more…]
February 9, 2009
Over on the prospect magazine blog you can read a post on an essay from their latest edition titled “The Red Tory Moment” by Phillip Blond. This is an intentionally provocative article, putting forward the thesis that David Cameron can (and may be likely to) steer the Conservative party in the UK towards a more… [Read more…]
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