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Category: Justice

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  PIG IRON 6A: The Arithmetic of Care

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore the Numbers Behind the Care Crisis

  May 27, 2026
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  PIG IRON: Capital is Forcing Labour To Go On Strike

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore AI and the Demand Deficit Contradiction

  May 27, 2026
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  PIG IRON 4: Who Gets To Decide

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we start to lay out some possibilities

  May 20, 2026
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  PIG IRON 2: The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberalism

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 2: In which we attempt to explain what Neo-Liberalism got right and why it has all gone wrong.

  May 10, 2026
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  PIG IRON 1: How Money Works

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.

  April 21, 2026
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  PIG IRON 0: What This Is

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.

  April 21, 2026
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  The Atmosphere Keeps Score

  Do you get wound up by those who would reject the imperative for us to transition to a clean energy world? Who see the short term costs and sacrifices as more damaging than the long term catastrophic impacts? Here’s some arguments to help.

  April 19, 2026
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  Listen to Me

  Just before I set off. I apologise for this. I get wound up by the state of the world. So I needed to get this off my chest. Feel free to ignore. I know I would if this was put in front of me. A Manifesto for Dignity, Democracy and…

  April 17, 2026
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  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
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  Measure for Measure at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  Measure for Measure Barbican Theatre, 8th January 2020 I like Measure for Measure. I find the weird cocktail of morality play and satirical “comedy” fascinating. No one comes out of it well, not even the ostensibly virtuous Isabella who goes into bat to save brother Claudio from death, but is…

  February 25, 2020