Twenty years ago, with Tony Blair still prime minister, I struck up a conversation with a stranger on a train. His eldest was about to enter infant school and he was bewildered by the choices – or as I would … Read More »
As Home Secretary, Suella Braverman called us hate marchers. The Israel lobby and its Western accomplices cry ‘anti-Semite’. So here’s a question. Would those taking to the streets in London and across the globe to protest genocide in Gaza today … Read More »
It’s not easy taking on a corporate body better funded and more powerful than yourself. In its small way my nine year battle with Sheffield Hallam University testifies to that. Many aspects of this week’s ITV offering, Mr Bates v … Read More »
Setting aside for now the dismal failure to check neoliberalism’s ongoing and profit-driven war on the natural environment, 2023 will surely be remembered for three things. First, as the year Russia shone a terawatt beam on the limits to US … Read More »
Staff at Sheffield Hallam have sent the following signed letter to university executives. Letter to the University Leadership Team At this moment, Israeli forces are engaged in an explicitly genocidal assault on the whole population of Gaza. The death toll … Read More »
The daily posts of British MMT pundit and tax specialist Richard Murphy fall a long way short – in range, depth and analytic power – of the writings of American political economist and debt specialist, Michael Hudson. Why compare them? … Read More »
The BBC say 300,000; Stop the War 800,000. Neither divulged their counting methodology but let’s split the difference and say over half a million marched on Saturday, November 11th, from Hyde Park down Park Lane and Grosvenor Place to Victoria, … Read More »
Apologies if you think sexist or even misogynist rhyming slang the worst thing since Barack Obama … …. … but here’s Britain’s right responsible Chancellor of the Exchequer, as reported yesterday … … and here he is a few years … Read More »
Labour has just produced cowardly politicians of the likes of Starmer, Reeves, Cooper, Miliband and (off-stage but still around) Balls, who are conviction-free zones but who think they can present a ‘better-management’, technocratic argument without ever questioning whether the system … Read More »
For the second time this week I’m replicating a column by tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy. Here (lightly edited) is what he wrote yesterday. Why interest rate rises are fuelling inflation I have been suggesting interest rate … Read More »