Poverty is one of the topics where humanity, morality and economics all work together. The same policies work to satisfy the needs and desires of the majority of individuals, are evidently morally just, and tend to create an economically successful
Traditional economics relies on continual growth, an assumption which made little sense in the 1960s and makes even less sense now. Any plan which requires unrestricted (in effect, infinite) growth on a finite planet is unlikely to succeed.
Brexit is possibly the most divisive political event in the history of the UK. The fallout from Brexit has left almost everybody hurt and feeling cheated. This is an attempt to understand how we achieved such an unhappy outcome. If we can agree ab