Universal Basic Everything

Author: Tessy Britton Creating essential infrastructure for post Covid-19 neighbourhoods. Universal Basic Everything is the idea that there are systems, tangible and intangible, that we need to survive and thrive. These relationships and friendships, products and...

This is a global catastrophe that has come from within

Author: Jonathan Watts In the early days of the lock-down, philosopher Bruno Latour wrote an essay for the AOC cultural online newspaper. “The first lesson the coronavirus has taught us,” he wrote, “is also the most astounding: we have actually proven that it is...

Why it’s time to vandalize the economic textbooks

Author: Kate Raworth at university twenty years ago, the concept of The Circular Flow of Money and Goods was the gateway to understanding macroeconomics – and it still is. It shows how households provide labour to firms, in return for wages, and then use their income...

Defund (and redesign) everything

Author: Jordan Hall It is not stretching the truth to say that effectively all of our social institutions are a bad combination of corrupt and obsolete. Our education system. Our healthcare system. Our food production systems. Our banking and finance systems. Our...

You cant pay cash here

Author: Sirin Kale As a result of the pandemic, retailers and banks have been pushing us to use contactless payments and online services for hygiene reasons. But many older, abused and unbanked people still depend on cash. What will happen to them? Those of us who use...