23rd June 2010
Last night I joined Riz Khan on his Al Jazeera evening show to discuss the budget and the dangers of synchronised austerity. Watch the video below:
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23rd June 2010 Today I gave my verdict on the budget in the Guardian. Click here to see it on the guardian site or read my article below: “When a small Canadian cruise ship hit an iceberg in 2007, its 154 passengers were nonchalant. Initial reports suggested only a small hole was punched into the hull and so they refused to panic. Twenty hours later the ship “had sunk beneath the waves”. Today the public and particularly the Liberal Democrats appear nonchalant as George Osborne steers the ship of state straight towards the Austerity Iceberg. The foolhardy captain of this ship has recruited the most vulnerable sectors of society – children, mothers and the elderly – to act as his crew – while removing their life boats. 22nd June 2010 Last week I was invited to speak at the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin on Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Watch the video below > 7th June 2010 My latest Huff Post blog
I’ve just enjoyed that privilege. And the world leaders were all women. The occasion is a conference of thousands of women in Washington DC. ‘Women Deliver’ is convened by a great New Yorker and long-time advocate for women’s reproductive rights, Jill Sheffield. Its purpose is to transform the life chances of girls and women around the world. 6th June, 2010. I am privileged to have as a mentor Professor Victoria Chick, Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College, London. Prof. Chick is both an eminent and distinguished Keynesian, but also a fine teacher and a woman of great taste and sensibility. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Virginia Woolf, and has |
In the September 2003 edition of openDemocracy I wrote: 
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