Also looking forward to getting this one!

Speaking of abundance, this new book looks excellent

We can't afford the rich. Wealth taxes would degrow their crass, wasteful and ostentatious displays of private wealth and fund efficient, quality and beautiful universal public services.

The results are in on the UK's experiment in extreme privatization. It's costing the British public a lot and one of the main reasons everythings so expensive and doesn't work anymore.

Huw Lemmey makes a case that anyone committed to the principles of democracy can't deny without becoming an authoritarian. The UK government has recently taken a huge stride towards a totally authoritarian state. How long until protest is banned altogether?

A necessary remedy to the lack of ambition when it comes to rethinking public services.

Flattered to get a small footnote in this. My point is that capital's metabolism works across commodified and informal (minimally commodified) economic activities not only in "cities of the global South" but explicitly in the so-called "advanced economies" aswell. doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Brilliant description of global production chains by Phil Neel in Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org/2024/12/fiel...

The Portuguese artist Xavier Almeida drew from my article about informal recycling in Barcelona in his recent residency at B-Murals Centre d’Art Urba. A liitle description of the work including some pictures of the accompanying comic is here: benjaminirvineresearch.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/x...