Confronting the crisis of the commons
Britain has become a society that denies the most basic obligations we have towards one another.
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Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is a staff writer for Tribune and the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation. Her latest book is Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom (Bloomsbury).
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