Search Results (4)
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Beware the security guard state
You probably didn't hear about it, but a couple of weeks ago, West London’s shiny new Westfield Shopping centre came under attack. By middle-aged librarians . A trio of them in fact, handing out ... under attack. By middle-aged librarians. A trio of them in fact, handing out leaflets about cuts ...
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The Ecology of Growth
soared, public-sector deficits have ballooned and a new age of austerity beckons. Business, politicians ... transformation is starting to emerge. As T.S. Eliot wrote in Little Gidding in the middle of the Second World ...
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83 months and counting...
. The great economic historian Paul Bairoch pointed how, up until the middle of the 18th century, the average ... of world GDP was estimated to be just under a quarter, on a par with Europe and India. By the middle ... of 2016. The power of seven: the number of sins, the hills upon which Rome was built and the ages of man ...
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The Cuts Won't Work
unrivalled since the dawn of the industrial age, and the rise of brutal totalitarian governments. Just ... . There will be periods, similar to that in the middle to late 1920s, when the global economy goes through a benign patch ... between life and death. Yet the past also provides potential ways out. The so called ‘golden age ...