The coronavirus pandemic is the latest and perhaps most significant shock to an already unstable global order, writes David Jamieson
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The coronavirus pandemic is the latest and perhaps most significant shock to an already unstable global order, writes David Jamieson
Coronavirus: What’s left of the world Brexit Britain and indy Scotland want to join?
“Right now, some people are telling you ‘we’ might recover from this. They mean neoliberalism as is – and it can’t. The question is not will there be change, but what kind of change?”
Robin McAlpine: Why I’m optimistic about post-virus economics
“Luckily, just as causes for pandemics and environmental degradation are related, so too are the solutions: state intervention and following science.”
Lena Swedlow: Climate, Coronavirus and the shared solution
“International solidarity is still something extremely important among the revolutionary governments in Latin America, and not just because it is an act of aid or charity, but also of survival.”
Nathália Urban: Solidarity, Covid-19 and Latin America
“Even if we somehow stabilise the economy faster than I suspect is possible, an inevitably reappraisal of financial asset values will follow – and that means insolvent banks. It’s hard to see how they could be rescued this time.”
Robin McAlpine: When people say the virus has changed the world, this is what they mean
“Profiteering is making the market more fragile, and exposing the profound weaknesses that have been bred into the economy by recent trends.”
The Covid profiteers: How the great coronavirus robbery is already underway
Food. Everyone needs it. It’s one of those universal essentials that goes on regardless of a pandemic. But most of us are so used to getting it on our plate that we don’t worry about it how it got there, and whether the mechanisms which led it to get there are resilient. There is growing […]
Chickens coming home to roost
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a wise man if ever there was one, described hope as “being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness”. Where do I see hope in our global Pandemic? In the struggles of people who are realising their own power to shape their lives and the society around them. In the […]
The Silverburn Suffragettes, and other sources of hope
“I see children coming to my school hungry because their families can’t afford to give them breakfast. That’s not acceptable. We have to address these things.”
Scottish Citizens’ Assembly: Answering The Big Questions
There’s a common refrain at the moment in the UK which goes along the lines of ‘no one can predict what is going to happen’, or ‘there is a lot of unknowns’. That is only partly true. The thing about a global crisis of this nature is that it may be very fast, but it […]
Beware of lockdown passivity
Local knowledge is key to dealing with community’s basic needs during crisis, but the government should be doing everything they can to provide funding and support, in order to protect society’s most vulnerable people.
Food During Crisis: Government Needs to Support Communities That Support the Vulnerable
Just before hundreds of thousands across Scotland and the UK cheered on the NHS last night, I had a conversation with a nurse in Glasgow working in the emergency department, i.e. on the COVID-19 frontline. She told me that “colleagues are writing wills and getting life insurance in order”. They’ve still not been tested, though there […]