My regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: Economics, inequality, privacy-destroying drones and citizen responsibilities.
Quite a few economy stories this week: Aditya Chakrabortty see the debate in Britain as farcical – between the Tories who propose austerity and Labour who propose stimulus and a return to 2005, when hidden behind the boom was rapidly increasing inequality, and unsustainable levels of borrowing. Austerity may not work, but the system does need reforming.
Oxfam proposed to Davos that a new deal on inequality be struck – with the 100 wealthiest people earning enough last year to end extreme poverty worldwide forever 4 times over…
On the Guardian they look at how the Tories are painting the poor as the new Elephant Man – a freak show caused by one’s own moral wrongs… They also look at Accountancy’s Big Four: getting millions from the taxpayer as they dream up ever greater tax avoidance schemes to deny the government their due…
On the Atlantic they look at why the government never needs to pay back debt… although GDP growth may be required, which whether the planet can sustain is another question…
Also on the Atlantic, but not on the economy they look at DARPA’s new 1.8 Gigapixel drone, that can see you waving at 15,000 feet… David Beatson at Pundit points out the lack of laws as our privacy disappears from such government surveillance.
On the BBC they look at the new citizenship manual for the UK – is it your duty to pick up litter? The manual sets out responsibilities of fair play and look after common space, as well as the rights expected to be provided by the state.
And to finish with a cartoon – On MotherJones they welcome you to the Permanent Campaign – keep the money flowing…
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