The World Inequality Report 2026 opens with a sentence that should trouble anyone who cares about democracy or economic justice: Inequality is a political choice.
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I did a video yesterday on campaigning and why most of it is just moaning. I put up a poll on YouTube asking why most campaigns fail.
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency”
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Grace Blakeley has replied to what I wrote about why parts of the left oppose modern monetary theory. In doing so, she has reinforced every
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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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The Treasury yesterday produced a distributional analysis of the Budget, plus last year’s fiasco from Reeves. They said: This document sets out estimates of the impact
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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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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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