Western’s are dead – long live the Western! 

James Robertson has been described as the ‘grandfather of green economics’; he might equally be called the father of Renegade Economics: over the last three decades nobody has been more eloquent or straightforward in their advocacy of a new economic order.
 

More than 99% of the general public think that money works as a system of tokens (real or electronic) that get passed from person to person as trade is carried out. 

Ooh, a banking enquiry. Bob Diamond's geezers will be quaking in their Guccis.

What a difference a night makes… Tuesday night ‘partying’ to ‘change the world’ with Bill Clinton. Wednesday night at Warwick University debating with the people who are actually going to do it. 

In another desperate effort to prop up the British Ponzi housing market David Cameron is offering council tenants £75,000 to help buy their own homes. 

With right wing jingoism, heroic acts and a whiff of British nostalgia who needs strategy? 

On TV we see footage of Merkel and Sarkozy brooding in Cannes and those Athens politicians sweating blood but outside, life on our Greek holiday goes on: yachts cross the horizon, the sea is turquoise and the air scented with flowers. 

When we look at the News International, Metropolitan Police and British Political debacle we begin to get the scale of the rot at the core of the Western democratic process.