Article Two of the UN Convention on Genocide, in December 1948, defined genocide as “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group […]
17th October 2018
FINANCE, SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABILITY
In this book, Radix co-Founder and Trustee Nick Silver explores how we might be able to make the financial system work for the economy, people and the planet. “Nick Silver challenges us to dig beneath the surface of finance and explore the fundamental changes we need to make if we’re ever to answer the question, […]
21st June 2016
Quantitative Easing – The Debate That Never Happened
Quantitative Easing has enriched the wealthy at the expense of the poor. What does this mean for Central Bank independence and political accountability?
So long, rogue superpower, and good riddance
There has been a lot of hand wringing about Trump giving up the USA’s leading role guaranteeing the global world order and abandoning the rules-based system which it created. Yet, even a superficial look at post-war history reveals that a lot of our current global security concerns were caused by the short-sighted foreign policy of […]
In praise of immigration
A few years ago, on a trip to Kenya, I chatted to some locals about why they wanted to come to the UK. These were all young, fit, intelligent, healthy people, and unsurprisingly they wanted to come to the UK to get a job. The average wage in Kenya is about £700 per annum compare […]
Trump the eco-warrior?
Donald Trump recently announced $60 billion tariffs on Chinese imports, following on from the previous week’s announcement of steel and aluminium tariffs. The Financial Times have predicted that this will lead to an (unwinnable) trade war with China. If this does indeed come to pass, this will have a dramatic impact on global greenhouse gas […]
Why Corbyn is (slightly) less wrong than the government
Jeremy Corbyn’s performance in Prime Minister’s question time last week on the nerve gas attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter was met with predictable opprobrium in the press. One of Corbyn’s many intellectual flaws is that he generally assumes that people who stand up to the USA are OK, by virtue of them standing […]
A simple yardstick for telling false prophets from real ones
Despite being a devout atheist Jew, there are still some Christian figures for whom I have a certain admiration. These are admittedly minor figures in the Christian tradition, people like Jesus, St Francis of Assisi and the Pope. I must apologise, though, to my readers of the Christian faith, that I find some of the […]
Who do you think you are, Theresa?
“How disappointing Mr Bond. Your pitiful little island hasn’t even been threatened.” I recalled these words of Blofeld, the arch-villain of Diamonds are Forever, when I read that the Prime Minister was considering military action against North Korea. This ridiculous hubris of British politicians about our importance in the word has been a common theme […]
