by Richard | Nov 28, 2017 | General
This letter was in The Guardian on 26 November 2017: Your editorial on productivity and robots repeated the cliche that automation does cost jobs, but more are created. The problem with this is that the new jobs are frequently in different places from where they are...
by Richard | Oct 13, 2017 | General
This letter was in the New Statesman (which is nicknamed the Staggers):
by Richard | Sep 27, 2017 | General
This was the lead Guardian letter on 27 September 2017: In your editorial (26 September) on John McDonnell’s proposal that PFI contracts be bought back by a future Labour government you suggest that any such action might be constrained by the need to persuade the...
by Richard | Sep 5, 2017 | General
Colin Hines and Richard Murphy had this letter in the Guardian on 5 September: Zoe Williams is right: another credit crunch-induced “crash” is likely and the only affordable rescue package will be some form of quantitative easing (With Britain’s addition to debt,...
by Richard | Sep 4, 2017 | General
All ideas ideas have their moments. Some of them are pivotal. The trouble is knowing when those pivotal tipping points arrive. Post Hurricane Harvey in the USA the Green New Deal is having one of its moments. The New York Times ran an article last week by Rebecca...
