Tag Archives: Neoliberalism

The EU Referendum: Turkeys have voted for Christmas

Posted on June 25, 2016 by

SARA has come to stay. That’s Shock, Anger, Rejection, Acceptance.  – it’s a model to explain the process of grief. Yesterday we experienced the shock that the country had voted to leave the EU. I say country – actually 72% … Continue reading →

Posted in EU referendum, farm subsidies, neoliberalism | Tagged , , , , , , | 60 Comments

Ecomodernism takes us back to an old future

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

The risk all utopians run is that entryists will use their idealism for their own ends. This would appear to be happening this week, as arch neoliberal brothers Owen Paterson and Viscount Matt Ridley, and others, seek to appropriate Ecomodernism … Continue reading →

Posted in ecomodernism, Living Marxism, Matt Ridley, neoliberalism, Owen Paterson, People Need Nature | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

Will “The Usual Suspects” fund Owen Paterson’s new Dummy Tank UK/2020?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by

      a dummy tank Two and a half years ago I wrote about the Art of Deception, and Operation Fortitude, where inflatable tanks were used to fool the Germans into thinking that D-Day would be an invasion of … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-environmental rhetoric, Astroturfing, corporate lobbying, deregulation, Neoconoids, neoliberalism, Owen Paterson, Think Tanks, UKIP | Tagged , , | 2 Comments