https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142308

Ma – one of China’s most recognisable environmental activists – says that early experiments with publishing real-time air quality data have paved the way for greater openness from the Chinese … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ma-jun-no-business-interest-in-chinese-coal-power-due-to-cheaper-renewables/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/#respond Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:43:41 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140336

Climate groups in Germany are celebrating a major legal victory after the country’s top court ruled that the federal government must strengthen climate protection plans. On Thursday, 29 January, the administrative … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/that-ends-now-german-court-ruling-raises-pressure-to-fix-stalled-climate-plans/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:41:19 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138422

Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that’s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:01:09 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137537

The only two individuals who have stood trial for their role in the largest utility corruption scandal in Ohio’s history have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review their cases … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ohio-utility-corruption-defendants-to-scotus-bribes-are-free-speech/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-gig-workers-strike-for-dignity-and-protection/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-gig-workers-strike-for-dignity-and-protection/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:04:43 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136886

On 25 December, the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) mobilized a nationwide flash strike, with nearly 40,000 delivery workers from platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, and Amazon participating across … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-gig-workers-strike-for-dignity-and-protection/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-power-of-pluck/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-power-of-pluck/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:56:20 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136834

When David fought Goliath, what if the big guy was just ill-equipped and poorly trained?  Frances Coppola reflects. As I mulled over what I was going to write for this … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-power-of-pluck/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:41:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136653

Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-the-die-out-of-diet/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wi-oh-wi/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/wi-oh-wi/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:45:12 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136641

When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/wi-oh-wi/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:31 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136505

In a year when billionaires added trillions to their fortunes, governments slashed health and education budgets to pay creditors, just as climate-fuelled disasters drove hunger and displacement to new highs. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/when-finance-eats-the-world/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:58:42 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=134296

Akter draws a direct line from Amazon’s pursuit of profit and speed to the lethal pressures on suppliers, echoing the ignored warnings that preceded Rana Plaza. Announcing solidarity with the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/its-been-12-years-since-rana-plaza-why-is-amazon-still-refusing-to-protect-bangladeshi-garment-workers/feed/ 0