The UK inflation rate did not rise in May. It remains at 2.8%. But, and I have made this point very many times before, one-month
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Debate Ammunition: This wealth tax will not work
THE RICHARD J MURPHY YOUTUBE CHANNEL DEBATE AMMUNITION THIS WEALTH TAX WILL NOT WORK Funding the Future | June 2026 TODAY’S TOPIC This wealth tax
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I may be wrong, but I wouldn’t bet on it
The world’s oil traders pushed the price of a barrel of Brent crude under $80 yesterday. By doing so, they are saying that I am
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How do we create change?
As I have already noted, I have been thinking about a question that people often ask me, which is how do we actually create the
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This wealth tax won’t work
The Global Justice Report from the World Inequality Database promises a great deal: climate stability, global income security, and justice through global wealth taxation. It
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Plotting a politics of care
I promised myself that I would think about revising my 2011 book, The Courageous State, this week, but instead of considering a plan yesterday, I
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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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One war ends; another begins
We are told that the war in the Gulf is over. I don’t believe that. Yesterday’s poll on this issue here suggested that you don’t
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