Weekly Letter Project

I know, I know, no posts for weeks at a time and then they all come at once. It's amazing how much I can write when I don't want to tidy up. I have written before on the problems of the "you make your own life" narrative. Since I wrote that post, the situation in Britain has not improved. Things are, frankly, dire and getting even worse. @kaygeeuk, who has carried out more activist interventions...

Subversive, wonderful economic activism: Rolling Jubilee

I've commented a few times on Twitter that we in the West do not have a debt problem so much as a usury problem. I won't say that charging interest is always evil: in the case of someone starting a new business and needing to borrow in order to do so, or someone buying a home and needing a mortgage, I believe it is fair to charge some interest. I do think that punishingly high interest rates are...