10th January 2011 – Peter Geoghegan

Netroots Taking Hold in Scotland?

By peterPosted on 10th January 2011Posted in Scotland, Society and CultureTagged Anti-cuts, netroots3 Comments

At the weekend I travelled down to the London for the UK’s first Netroots conference. There are already been plenty of reports on the day’s proceedings elsewhere on the web, from the Guardian and Total Politics to Red Pepper and Counterfire….so surely another one won’t hurt. On the whole it was a useful day – […]

The Secret Life of Stuff

By peterPosted on 10th January 2011Posted in Books, Society and Culture, Sunday Business PostTagged Growth Isn't Possible, Julie Hill, New Economic Foundation, Secret Life of Stuff1 Comment

Review of Julie Hill’s new book the Secret Life of Stuff appeared in the Sunday Business Post on January 9 Economic growth is always a good thing, right? Not according to the New Economics Foundation. In January 2010, this left-leaning British think-tank warned, in the aptly-titled Growth Isn’t Possible report, that the prevailing orthodoxy of […]

Day: 10th January 2011