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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I keep warning of a crisis. But the question to ask is whether there is evidence of it happening. There is. Take this chart from
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I have, this morning, added a new e-book to our PDF download site. This is the combined collection based on the Economic Thinker Series published
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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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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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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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As the FT has noted this morning: Eurozone inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in May, bolstering the case for the European Central Bank to
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This post is one of an ongoing series explaining Richard Murphy’s views on significant topics in economics, political economy, politics, taxation, and accounting. It should
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We were researching readership data across our channels yesterday and noticed something surprising. This blog has now had more than 51 million views since it
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