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Global economy running on fumes: let’s have a jolly nice war

Sterling has taken a post-Brexit pounding and may even fall below parity with the dollar. The US economy is at the top of a bull run and running on fumes. The Euro is sliding and the European Union may disintegrate. Deutsche Bank may fail (it’s much, MUCH bigger than Lehman Bros) and could be the […]

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Tories under pressure to go for investment: Labour’s opportunity to drive the economic narrative

The Reluctant Capitalist: keeping the Left up to speed From Anna’s Facebook post Sunday 2nd October 2016: I’ll give this to Team Corbyn for free (as always). I’m delighted to see left arguments for infrastructure investment entering the debate at the Labour conference. What you might not know is that investors, AKA the capitalist class,

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Helena Bonett’s Tate film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio in St Ives screened

I’m delighted to learn that Helena Bonett’s film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio — now a Tate St Ives museum — includes a clip of my 2006 video (above) and is now out doing the rounds. Next screening 15th June at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. From the DVD cover: Trewyn Studio in St Ives,

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Lucy Sheen’s moving documentary, Abandoned Adopted Here, launched at SOAS, 7th April

Abandoned Adopted Here — SOAS 7 pm.7th April 2016. DLT Lecture theeatre. SOAS. London. WC1H 0XG. The first public screening of the acclaimed documentary – Abandoned Adopted Here by Lucy Sheen. From 50s, 60s Colonial Hong Kong to pre-multicultural UK, a group of Hong Kong foundlings were transracially adopted. Lucy interviewed a few of her

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