David Ransom
David Ransom was a Co-Editor of New Internationalist magazine from September 1989 until May 2009. He began his working life in Uruguay and was a researcher at the London School of Economics, living in Chile prior to the military coup in 1973. Thereafter he worked as a teacher and community activist in the East End of London, campaigning on issues of homelessness, addiction and mental health. His publications include Licence to Kill (on the death of Blair Peach in 1979) and the No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (published by the NI).
He is now a freelance pensioner on a Dutch barge moored near Bristol.
Posts by this author
- Tax and cut - it makes no sense
- Cadbury's down river
- Blair Peach - the worm turns again
- Kit Kat and brickbats
- Tobin or not Tobin
- Adam Smith and other ghosts
- The Austerity Stakes
- Kleptocracy comes home
- Rover's return
- Meltdown - and out
- Ship of Fools
- Blair Peach - a stone is turned
- Passing the time of day
- Praying for rain
- No riff-raff here!
- May Day, May Day... ---...
- Have your say!
- Blair Peach revived
- G20: dead cat bounce
- Virtually G20
- G20: what we want - made simple
- Global week of action
- Put People First - a good day on the streets of London
- Putting People First - in London
- Putting people first in Bristol
- Yellow Jersey - tax haven takes the limelight
- The S word
- Bank strike!
- Venezuela - watch out!
- Who was John Maynard Keynes?
- No we can't
- A shameless betrayal
- G7 plus 13: lucky for some
- Bretton Woods II (part 2): free, foul or fair - what's to be done about trade?
- Obama nights
- Enough! Never Again!
- Bretton Woods II: Scrap the Unholy Trinity - the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO
- The debt is to the Majority World - and to nature
- Native Spirit Festival
- The First World Debt Crisis
- How to find (another) $700 billion without really trying
- How to find $700 billion without really trying
- Bhopal - hunger strike bites
- Zapatistas threatened
- Zapatistas threatened
- The first casualty: the fair green banana?
- China arms ship: union says ‘return to China only option’
- Food - wake-up call
- Sub-prime people
- Another Guatemalan banana union leader shot dead
- Fidel Castro - the verdict
- A day for Osanloo
- Inner city orchard
- Born to be wild
- Another year is possible
- Anita Roddick
- In praise of slugs
- Niña’s Ark
- Chávez - neither Satan nor Saviour
- Permaculture
- Saramago
- The Poison of Pinochet
- Epiblog
- Enough!
- My home in transit
- Autumnal warming
- Only connect
- Rising tide sinks boat
- Darkness visible
- Batteries and warm eggs
- Solar panels and chickens
- Flying showers and parties
- Spiders and the World Cup
- My maiden voyage
- Fresh-water sharks
- Semi-organic grunge
- Rave
- Spaniel vision
- Stormy waters
- Sinking assets
- Light on the water
- Venezuela
