Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Bruce Arnold, Killynon House Books, 1 May 2012
Ferdinand Mount, Simon & Schuster, 26 April 2012
Martin Jacques, Penguin, 29 March 2012
Daniel Ben-Ami, Policy Press, 14 March 2012
Demonising debt distracts us from what caused the public-debt crisis in the first place – the sluggishness of the productive economy.
Phil Mullan, spiked, 13 March 2012
The Greek drama has shown that every solution that is based in the compromise and the negotiations with the creditors and the international financial organisations leads to unemployment, poverty, neocolonial loan agreements, police brutality, constitutional coup d’etats and finally at default.
Leonidas Vatikiotis, contramee, 15 February 2012
In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate.
Bruno Waterfield, spiked, 8 February 2012
Linda Yueh, Edward Elgar Publishing, 31 January 2012
The purpose of CSR today is to act on behalf of governments that can’t be trusted and for people who don’t know what’s good for them.
Bill Durodie, Independent, 31 October 2011
Is the Big Society the good society?
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Andrew Copson, chief executive, British Humanist Association