There are signs that the politics of grievance is running out of road News over the weekend has been revealing. In the UK, there has
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When a president says the quiet part out loud
Donald Trump said things at an event to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence that deserve attention. Amongst his many partisan
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What we are up against
The Spectator – the far-right rag edited by Lord Michael Gove, the man who did more to destroy English education and create the crisis among
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Debate Ammunition: The small company corporation tax gap
THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION THE SMALL COMPANY TAX GAP Funding the Future | July 2026 Today’s Topic The small company corporation
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Why do the media make us believe they are on the wrong side of the truth?
As Robert Reich has noted on his Substack overnight: Trump’s war with Iran is continuing. Today, Iran launched attack drones at Bahrain — which hosts
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Tht didn’t last long
I was not surprised by a report from the New York Times last night, which noted that: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz
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Trump is going to pay an enormous cost for his defeat
Trump is claiming he won the war in Iran, which I stress is not over as yet; it is just on hold. But then the
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Reform wants to release a racist wrecking ball on the UK economy
The former Tory, and now Reform far-right MP, Robert Jenrick, has set out in the Daily Telegraph his ideas on tax reform, for which programme
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We need a Courageous State to fight neoliberalism
I read the Substack essay that Nigel Farage supposedly wrote yesterday. I use the word supposedly deliberately because I do not think that Nigel Farage
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