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 »
Few alive today in the West have experienced destitution. Yes, baby boomers raised on working class streets knew the haunted look of mothers with too much week and too little money. I recall – I’d be seven or eight – … Read More »
A couple of things are exercising me, one of them read recently. I’ve long thought hubris an occupational hazard for bloggers. Without the support and discipline of a party – and I see none I could join – we may … Read More »
Writing yesterday on his Tax Research site – see Starmer makes me despair – accountant, tax specialist and modern monetary theorist Richard Murphy has this to say: Keir Starmer was interviewed by the ever-affable Justin Webb on the Tory Today programme on … Read More »
Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in … Read More »