Professor Gary Gerstle is the author of the brand new book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In this…
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This Is Only The Start Of NHS Privatisation
In the UK this weekend, a concerned 61 year old woman was arrested and slapped with a £10,000 fine after arranging a protest in opposition to the measly 1% pay rise being proposed for nurses by the government. It’s a scene that would have drawn outrage in the Britain of 2019, but we…
The Tabloid Noise Machine Is Proving Its Worth
For the past 40 years in Britain we have been subject to the rule of neo-liberalism and the conventional wisdom of free-market economics. Beginning with Thatcher and tracing it’s way through a series of ideological heirs in Blair, Cameron, and now Johnson, this ideology is responsible for the ever rising wealth and income…
