I said I would be spending time thinking and that I would be revisiting my hastily written 2011 book, The Courageous State, when doing so.
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The Richard J Murphy YouTube Channel Debate Ammunition The need to stand and stare Funding the Future | June 2026 Today’s topic We need to
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We’re told to be busy. We’re told to produce results, meet targets, hit deadlines and keep moving. We are taught that activity is a virtue
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I posted this entry in the blog’s glossary a year ago, yesterday. My thanks to Simon Slade for reminding me. When there is so much
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The government and its former defence secretary, who resigned yesterday, have both claimed that the UK faces an increased defence risk and that, as a
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The Richard J Murphy YouTube Channel Debate Ammunition Will there be a UK housing crash? Funding the Future | June 2026 Today’s topic Will the
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People keep asking me whether the UK is heading for a house price crash. The honest answer is that nobody knows for certain. But what
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My sense of foreboding is not lifting. First, the totally unnecessary interest rates that will presage and then compound the recession the world is going
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I am finding it difficult to write. The US and Iran are at war again, but we knew that was going to happen. I had
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