Richard Murphy
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006Richard Murphy (67) was a practising chartered accountant for forty years and is now a political economist. He is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Sheffield
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The Resolution Foundation on poverty: the required responses
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026Having noted yesterday the inadequate proposals for tackling poverty from the Resolution Foundation, included in a new book that they have published, I thought it
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The Resolution Foundation's "Unsung Britain" is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families
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Desperate people
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on Keir Starmer to stand down yesterday. Maybe he expected others to follow suit. They didn’t. So why did
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The Hollow Man: Why Starmer is the ultimate neoliberal failure
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026Keir Starmer is being urged to explain what he believes in to save his leadership. That misunderstands the problem. This video argues that Starmer’s failure
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Keir Starmer does not know what he believes – but has achieved his goal
Monday, February 9th, 2026The morning media coverage suggests that Keir Starmer now has only one way to survive as leader of the Labour Party. He must, apparently, finally
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The fallout from Mandelson
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026What to think of Peter Mandelson’s conduct? I will place my cards face up on the table. I have always loathed the man. I have
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If GDP is a broken measure, why do politicians still worship it?
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026GDP dominates political debate, but it tells us almost nothing about real prosperity, well-being, or care. Created as a technical statistic of massive use in
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What do we want? Care or fascism? That's the economic choice we now face
Monday, February 2nd, 2026This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care. Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It
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