For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long
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I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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 In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly
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The Tories’ response to Covid in March 2020 was chaotic and indecisive, according to the official report on the issue. The Guardian notes: “Too little
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There is a sentence in The Lancet’s new series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), published this week, that makes clear exactly what the issue with them
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Across the West, governments are failing. Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz and others are losing authority at the very moment crises demand leadership. Far-right movements are
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I have already posted once this morning on hate-fuelled politics. I have to do so again. The Telegraph has reported Reform’s hate-fuelled Budget proposals, about
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