Current and Topical Affairs

Current and Topical Affairs

The next meeting will be in the autumn when we may opt for a new format, so please contact John or Allen if you have any thoughts on this or would like to launch a subject for discussion., John

See below for reports of recent meetings. For earlier reports go to: http://amolad.net/cata/

Group reports

Full report

(Please note these are merely some personal thoughts on the subject and clearly have no pretensions to be in the style of a rigorous academic review !)

Full report

A review of banking in U.K.

Banking in essence is a simple business: savers or depositors put money into the bank whose job it is loan the money out hopefully to folk who can pay it back over time with an element of interest and it’s the interest that earns the bank its profits once it’s paid its depositors their loans with interest.

Full report

Meeting Report Feb 9

Banking: Reformed or Still Flaky?

Full report

Meeting report - James Holland from Climate Camp

January 2010
Direct Action on Climate Change: Is it Justified?

Full report

Meeting Report - Charity Work on the Eastern Cape

November 2009
Charity Work on the Eastern Cape -- a talk by Dianne Lang