It's not just Thames Water: the whole of the English water industry is environmentally insolvent
Friday, March 29th, 2024I posted this thread on Twitter last June, but it is just as relevant today: There has been much discussion about the likely failure of
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It is essential that the state regulate the private sector if we are to avoid fascism. It looks as if both Labour and the Tories have abandoned this goal.
Friday, March 29th, 2024In April 1938, President Franklin D Roosevelt sent a message to Congress in which he said: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths
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Will Thames Water finally force Labour to address the nationalisation issue?
Thursday, March 28th, 2024As The Telegraph notes in an email this morning: Thames Water took a further step towards nationalisation after shareholders said they would not provide it
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The NHS could be and should be, well funded so that it might deliver for the people of this country. That it does not do so is a result of Tory policy choice, not necessity
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024The NHS is under threat today, precisely because it is failing to deliver what the people of this country expect of it. A report in
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Evidence suggests that privatising healthcare services does not produce better health outcomes. So why is Labour so keen on doing this?
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024The medical journal, The Lancet has published a paper this month with the following heading: The Summary of the piece is as follows: Over the
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You can’t say MMT does not work because you think Scotland will be a failed state after independence
Monday, March 25th, 2024This tweet was posted over the weekend: “I’m the Fox Mulder of MMT. I want to believe, but there’s a thing called the current account
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I don’t believe in growth
Thursday, March 21st, 2024I don’t believe in growth as an economic panacea. There, I’ve said it, and most economist will be horrified. Why say so now? Because Rachael
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We need an economics that prioritises the needs of people
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024I have written this morning about the costs that will arise as a result of our need to make good on decades of underinvestment in
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Who will survive in the face of the need for essential services? Will it be the landlord and the banker, or the people? That is the question.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024This was posted in the Financial Times over the weekend but remains well worth sharing because of its broader significance: Parts of South Africa’s largest city
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