The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.

It’s untrue, unhelpful and intellectually lazy to suggest that the 0.01% are bad people. No one planned it and no one is to blame. This is not a binary, satisfying battle between good and evil.

These days, it’s fashionable to use the term ‘ideology’ as a pejorative; to be ideological is to be unreasonable, rigid, caught in thrall to a belief system and untethered from rationality. Political opponents are ideological, we’re not. But that’s a sloppy use of language; ideology, within normal parameters, has no...

Who rules the world? It’s a very important question for anyone who wants to change the status quo. A new pamphlet released today argues that we live on a One Party Planet, namely that one overarching ideology – Neoliberalism, Freemarket Economics, call it what you will – has taken control...

The second hope (in creating an opposition to the neo-liberal party) is a popular global uprising. It has to be global to match the scale of the force and the structures it must challenge. Beyond that, it’s difficult to know what it might look like because practically the only thing...

So just who is in charge of this planet? Is it a small group of people with one plan? A large group of people with lots of competing plans? Does it even make sense to think of ‘control’ in these terms at all?