I have my differences, not least on the nature and causes of the Ukraine war, with Richard – tax specialist, MMT (modern monetary theory) champion, Quaker, birdwatcher, former professor at a Sheffield University I too once taught at, denizen of … Read More »
Sunday, July 5, 2026 But the state we’re in goes beyond the pros and cons of any individual politician. No mainstream party in the UK or Europe at large shows the slightest sign of acknowledging, as prelude to serious conversation, … Read More »
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon Gods they’d made. Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence A commodity appears a trivial thing easily understood but its analysis shows that it is in reality a queer thing, abounding in … Read More »
Today’s post picks up where yesterday’s left off. Not because it too features Owen Jones, in this case as host with the confidence and discipline to let his guest do the talking, but because it too takes as starting point … Read More »
Here in the UK a plumber by the name of Hannah Spencer confirmed what many already knew; a century of Labour-Conservative duopoly of government is over. Standing as a Green at the Gorton-Denton byelection two days ago, she overturned a … Read More »
The lawsuit itself doesn’t matter. The threat is the point. Deep of pocket, thin of skin and lacking the cognitive capacity to fight barbed humour on its own turf, the writ-happy Trumps are big on lawfare. The oval office tangerine … Read More »
Nothing is isolated; everything connected. If I’ve neglected Palestine of late, that’s not all down to surging demand on my time during the most epic few weeks, on the global stage, of my life. Contrary to what many otherwise invaluable … Read More »
China decisively played the rare-earth card. America is too dependent, too vulnerable. Ultimately, it had to compromise. But this raises the deeper question: why did the U.S. walk willingly into a self-made trap? The answer lies in its deep-rooted addiction … Read More »
Introducing the Richard Murphy piece replicated below, Naked Capitalism’s Conor Gallagher says this: According to the Kiel Institute, the UK has shovelled 19.266 billion euros into the corrupt hole of death that is Ukraine, which is always worth remembering when elites … Read More »
No coherent alternative to the economically and morally catastrophic consequences of the ‘austerity’ embraced in all but name by Starmer and his incompetent Chancellor is possible without decisively defeating the notion that “balancing the books” – i.e. repaying a creditor … Read More »