The aura that surrounds Oxbridge shines brightly. But scratch the surface and you find a different story riven by snobbery and backbiting. Host Ross Ashcroft met up with Ethnographer and author, Lisa McKenzie and Biography & Fiction author, Dr. Paula Byrne to unpick whether for young working class people there is much point to going to university
Host Ross Ashcroft met up with US author, Charlie Robinson, to consider how the modern US empire, which has nothing to lose, will meet its inevitable fate.
‘Profits versus people’ has always been the dichotomy at the heart of the pharmaceutical industry.
Renegade Inc. host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with author, Gerald Posner, to discuss whether Big Pharma will use the Corona virus as an opportunity to redeem itself after decades of wrongdoing and greed, or whether will it continue business as usual?
The broad definition of propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote a political cause or point of view. So what is the British taxpayer not being told about the ongoing war in Syria?
Most employment law, if not all of it, needs to be thrown out and replaced with legislation that wasn’t built on more than 150 years of master/slave law and precedent.
Or so says Professor David Graeber, anthropologist and author of the best selling book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. In it, he argues that, rather than freeing us from work and diminishing the 40 hour work week, automation has led to the proliferation of ‘bullshit jobs’ and the creation of an administrative and managerial class hired to help extract rents, suppress wages and maximise profits in a bid to redistribute ever more global resources to the elite.
We need to talk about taxation. I do not think it means what you think it means. While some of us are pretty conscious of the importance of using the correct terminology when it comes to issues of social justice, race, gender and sexuality, when it comes to addressing inequality, we are still using language straight out of the neoliberal handbook. We need to be honest about how the tax system works and what it is for. To do so isn’t radical, or even progressive. It is simply the economics of reality.