Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Dance me to the end of love – an economics for tomorrow
Any economics that defines the time given to human interaction as negative productivity has lost the plot, writes ALAN SIMPSON
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
IT WAS a message to warm the heart — a daughter thanking the care worker who took the time to dance with her dementia-suffering dad at the end of each home visit.
Little did she realise that this “thanks” also holds the key to breaking our collective obsession with “growth-based” economics.
Conventional economics describes acts of human kindness in entirely pejorative terms.
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