With every prospect of a Labour government in Britain in 2024 – and if the Tories have the nous to play the long game, a whole lot sooner – let me begin with the two quotes which ended my post … Read More »
Sunday Times, October 16, 2022 * Media speak of a double crisis having hit Britain since Kwasi Kwarteng, sacked on Friday after thirty-eight days as Chancellor of the Exchequer in an attempt by his boss (as futile as it was … Read More »
By sacking Kwarteng, Truss hopes to save herself. But there is little chance this will work. Appointing Jeremy Hunt as replacement chancellor is an attempt to reach out to other sections of the party, but her government is dead in … Read More »
International chess tournament in Reykjavik, 2017 Zugzwang – “compulsion to move” – is a situation in chess and other turn-based games wherein a player is placed at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move when any legal … Read More »
Guardian headline, October 5, 2022 There is some growth that is natural. Children grow. That’s good news. So do cancers. That’s not good. Any discussion on growth has to say what growth is desired. Richard Murphy, below * For a … Read More »
They laughed because they were untouchable, not because what I said was wrong. Sinead O’Connor Let me start with a few core truths about Julian Assange: Even if this man was a rapist – he isn’t – that is not … Read More »
Excellent post yesterday from Quaker, tax specialist and modern monetary theory advocate, Richard Murphy. Do read in the context of that other MMT sympathiser, a debt specialist with over half a century of academic, political and corporate experience. For all … Read More »
Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry Is The Sun, Britain’s biggest selling newspaper, about to switch its support from Tory to Labour? It wouldn’t be the first time. After owner Rupert Murdoch was assiduously courted by Tony Blair in the late … Read More »
Amid the most egregious display of governmental incompetence of my lifetime – and this right after Boris Johnson! – with Team Truss waging class war at a scale and tempo Mrs Thatcher would have called out as extreme, Britain’s Labour … Read More »
I say, I say – did you hear the one about Charles opening a leisure centre in Scunthorpe? On the big day, the streets were lined with scunners eager to catch sight of the man yet to be king. Finally … Read More »