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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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Failure to Moderate Excess: A Round-Up of Crisis Chronicles Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 21 October, 2009 - 13:41
William Dixon

Now the dust has settled on the collapse of the banking industry, William Dixon looks back at some crisis bestsellers and finds their limit in a lack of systemic analysis and insistence on reform

 


When death is a reminder to live (should be titled: Preemptive death) Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - 02:52
Anne Fifield

'South Korean companies are sending employees on "fake funeral" courses to help prevent suicide. The "well-dying craze" has become an integral part of training at Samsung, which has built its own fake funeral centre'


Day of the dollar: a global connection OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 - 17:59
Jon Amsden / Jeffrey Fleishman / LA Times staff writers

Thanks to Meltdown III stalwart Jon Amsden for finding and introducing this impressionistic but telling survey of what a dollar free-falling towards worthlessness ('Monopoly money', anyone?) means in terms of everyday survival in some parts of the world.

 

For those who may wish to take a break from the lofty abstractions of financial skullduggery and dollar decline, here's how it looks on the fishmarket floor and in other places where the dollar was once the basic currency of international trade but is now losing its former luster.


Private fascist initiative OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 - 16:17
Private Eye

Private Eye looks back at the birth of PFI and makes a not-so-surprising discovery.

A reader alerts the Eye to a 1940s history of Benito Mussolini, uncovered by a US think tank, and makes an unkind comparison with Gordon Brown's current favourite policy.  
   

subject: Business | Debt | History | State

Whole Earth Catalog Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 - 17:21
Whole Earth Catalog

Cover of 1969 Whole Earth Catalog

subject: Business | Environment

Hanging in the balance (PFI & PwC) OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 - 17:56
Private Eye

From Private Eye, the otherwise barely-reported story of the recent Treasury paper underlying the UK government's renewed commitment to more! bigger! better! PFI, which draws on the 'analysis' of PFI fee-farmers PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG etc.

    It has screwed scores of hospital budgets, snarled up the school building process and lumbered taxpayers with billions of pounds of hidden debts, yet the private finance initiative continues to thrive.  Why?


Big cheques in the post OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 3 April, 2008 - 18:56
Private Eye (In the Back)

Last year's Royal Mail strikes responsded to an ongoing attack on postal workers' conditions, the origins of which can be traced directly to the competitve, 'harmonized' market being gradually introduced under the EU Postal Directives of 1997 and 2002.  The threatened closure of post offices across the UK also falls within the Directives' market logic.  (It remains to be seen if local post office user campaigns, whose bandwagon now groans under the weight of Ken Livingstone and a posse of embarrassed/embarrassing Labour MPs, will manage to organize in solidarity w


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