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 »
I’m a huge fan of Caitlin Johnstone’s wittily penetrative and deceptively simple ways of showing how insane a world run by and for a tiny elite truly is, when what she is up against are systems of opinion manufacture controlled … Read More »
Outside Buckingham Palace yesterday I’ve never been one for claiming psychic powers but try this for size. Early afternoon yesterday the thought occurred, courtesy one of those random associative chains the mind’s humdrum chatter churns out 24/7, that Prince Philip … Read More »
Does it look like he’s listening? A minder bars Audrey White from the target of her scorn. I awoke this morning wondering whether to write about Nancy Pelosi’s insanely and arrogantly provocative Taiwan visit – and its numerous parallels with … Read More »
. Schadenfreude can be delightful, but the pleasures do tend to be short-lived. Few likely to read this will shed any tears over the serial liar for now still in residence at London’s 10 Downing St. But while his latest … Read More »