I keep hearing people say things like this right now: I hate Labour, but I’d vote Burnham to keep Reform out. I admit that if
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Debate Ammunition: Labour, PFI and Financial Illiteracy
THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION LABOUR, PFI AND FINANCIAL ILLITERACY Funding the Future | June 2026 TODAY’S TOPIC Why PFI for New
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New towns, old scam?
Labour says it wants to build new towns. But if Rachel Reeves funds them through PFI-style private finance, those towns could be financially crippled from
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Farage, fascism, division and the reasonable fear of what comes next
Last December, a young man in Southampton was murdered. I deeply regret any murder or unnecessary loss of life, however caused. In the aftermath of
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Here we go again. Nothing has changed. Nothing has been learned.
The has FT noted that: Economists expect the inflation shock driven by the Iran war to be less severe than the surge in prices during
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Pat McFadden: the single handed explanation for the mess Labour is in
As the BBC has noted, we now know as a result of the Mandelson disclosures that: The man who is now work and pensions secretary
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UK universities are not dying: they are being killed
There is an idea gaining traction inside the UK that a university degree has declining social and economic value. As an ever-increasing proportion of young
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Economic meltdown: coming our way
Three weeks ago, I warned that the war involving Iran could trigger a seven-stage economic crisis. Today, I think that risk is much greater than
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Debate Ammunition: The Seven Stages to Economic Meltdown
THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION THE SEVEN STAGES TO ECONOMIC MELTDOWN Funding the Future | June 2026 TODAY’S TOPIC The Seven Stages
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