This week we debate the pros and cons of non-violent resistance. Does passivism give us a psychological upper hand over aggressive police forces? Or should we be prepared to use every trick in the book against those who have no qualms doing so? FOR – Martin Eiermann I admit: It […]
The Occupied Times picks over the carcass of the Eurozone with Matt Lynn: Columnist for Bloomberg News and Marketwatch, thriller writer and author of ‘Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis’. OCCUPIED TIMES: So Matt, is there any life left in the euro? MATT LYNN: It’s game over. […]
“The End is Nigh!” Delightful words, written in bold on a sandwich board or screamed out on a street corner in the ecstasy of doom. But what does it mean? Sadly our own Christian enthusiastics are too busy dancing jigs, hoisting enormous crucifixes about and berating strangers to preach about […]
After editorials focussing on the birth of the movement here in London, Cannon Fraser’s resignation, and the student march of last week, perhaps it is time for a little introspection. The Occupied Times is now a familiar sight around St Paul’s every Wednesday, despite a print run of only 2000 […]
This week two of our own editors tackle the subject of internships. As things are, most internships are unpaid, but do they generally benefit the intern, or the man? AGAINST – Steven Maclean The journalism industry perfectly demonstrates the problems with the internship model. Browse any media jobs site for […]
The Occupied Times meets James G. Rickards, geo-politician and author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis. OCCUPIED TIMES: What’s happening in the world economy now? Is it a convulsion, or the death throes? JAMES G. RICKARDS: We are not at the death throes yet. We are at the stage […]
This week the topic up for discussion is free education. As students march again over increased tuition fees, we’re asking if education should be totally free, or if there should be some contribution. FOR (some contribution) Ben Yardley In 1998 the Labour government introduced university top up fees of £1000, […]
The bells, the bells, the bells which ruined my blessed sleep on the first Saturday of the occupation barely register anymore, having merged into the general background, but who ever imagined that all this Jesus-talk would become so normal? On the cathedral steps, everyone has become a theologian, taking up […]
This week, the Occupied Times buys an international phonecard and rings Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, one of America’s most distinguished economists and a longtime champion of racial equality. OCCUPIED TIMES: Professor, you can wave a magic wand – what economic changes do you make? […]
One year on from the demonstration that culminated in the trashing of Millbank, students are again on the march. It would be easy to dismiss the protests then as a failure. Fees were raised and EMA scrapped despite mass opposition, but what ‘began’ then has mutated throughout the year, leading […]