The Guardian has just published this:
I think they were trying to establish a mad professor theme with that choice of photo.
As for the profile, it's an interesting interpretation of the interview. It makes me sound miffed, when I am most definitely not. And it makes me sound critical, when that's not true either.
I was delighted Jeremy Corbyn used my ideas. I admit they could have been better used. I wish more of them were at the heart of UK political debate now.
We do need to tackle the tax gap.
We do not need austerity.
A strong opposition is needed.
We will need People's Quantitative Easing in due course.
And I am available to discuss these ideas with those who are interested in any party (and none) likely to take them seriously.
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Either it was a windy day or you have ‘soaped’ up your hair as a tribute to ‘punk days’ of yore! great photo, all in all.
Where was the brick wall? A symbol of the resistance of Neol-liberal mind-sets?
Lambeth
And the rest unconciously done
But I admit she seemed a really good photographer
One comment I would like to make – when you critisise or comment there is nothing slighting or nasty, the comments may be biting but they are not bitter and derogatory, nothing spiteful even when very critical. I could wish that others had the same command of language and self. Thank you for your wonderful blog Long may it continue. All the best for you and yours in the coming years.
Thanks Chris
Appreciated
Wish we had some one like you in Ireland Richard. God knows we need somebody.
I have been over
And boy do your politcians need a policy to get over 12.5%
Does Ireland still have any young people left?
Still, you’ve got the compensation of Christine Lagarde condescendingly calling the Irish ‘heroes’ for going through austerity. Isn’t it nice when we get a pat on the head from the banking world?!! Warms the cockles of your heart!
See:http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/lise-hand/charming-imfs-christine-lagarde-hails-irish-people-as-heroes-30920818.html
(keep a bucket handy for the occasional wretch)
Forcing nations to depopulate is the actual intent of the EU design. Those who are unemployed have to wander the continent in search of a job. All the small countries have to become like Ireland — perennial suppliers of cheap labour to their more prosperous neighbours.
I see nothing in the agenda of the europhile left that looks to change the design, which either means they don’t understand that is the design, or they don’t care about the people their beliefs displace.
Couch-surfing while taking part in the gig-economy might sound fun for a while, but it is hardly consistent with bringing up children.
The “hero” country will be the one that forces the IMF/EU to cancel all/most of its debt.
Personally, I think it could be Spain.
Everything UKIP & the Tory right say – we could trade across the world, our language is worldwide, we have a huge cultural community, could equally be said of Spain but the EU isn’t trying to bankrupt Great Britain.
I think faced with Espexit a lot of people, including Lagarde, will have to think carefully. [In the word “Espexit” the X is, of course, pronounced like the “CH” in Loch}
What have the poor wretches done to deserve the dreaded bucket? I wish you a happy new year, anyway. And you too Mr Murphy.
And to you, who I don’t call Dave
England is “Hero Country” in Chinese.
I’m not sure if they know something we don’t, but it’s pretty certain that we’re going to need all the heroism we can muster…
I think the photo was just designed to wind up Torygraph readers:
“These open-necked shirted, velvet-jacketed swines are coming to deny us our god-given right to exploit. The Liberal University educated Bastards. Exploitation was what made our country what is is today. I expect he’d like Rhodes’ statue torn down in Oxford. The filthy hound. Probably Irish too – give him a stout & he’ll start warbling about “the rare old times”. Just NOT ONE OF US.
Corduroy please, not velvet
A well deserved Congratulations; your work has taken me from an Economic Phobic to being an Economic Learner – So Thanks and keep up the great work
Thank you
JayneL- I’ve followed a similar path over the last few years and Richard’s site has been a significant part of the learning , so thanks again to Richard and all the commentators I’ve learnt from (from whom I’ve learnt!).
In the end economics IS everything-our perception of reality; our social relationships; life and death;the planet – the main thing is to develop the tools to realise that we are largely fed guff and bullshit by systems of vested interests.
Poor old benighted Dave tells us we’re ‘living beyond our means’ when we’ve hardly begun to understand what our ‘means’ are.
Thanks Simon
Much appreciated your comments this year
Best for 2016
Every encouragement for the New Year, Richard. I may not comment but I read your blog daily and recommend your alternative narrative to as many as I can.
Thank you
Richard,
An excellent profile and long overdue I might add.
I was savoring the piece when I clicked back to the homepage of the Guardian and saw the admonitions of Lord Mandelson and the dangerous direction Labour has charted, very distressing.
Whilst you are not part of Labour, given your deep insight, what is the appetite within the party for Mandelson and his ilk?
James: within the Danczuk wing, high
Within the leadership, low
Within the party at large, very little at all
The best thing that Mandelson and Blair can do for Labour is to realise their attention seeking time in the sun is over and they should p*ss off with their Bilderberg chums and allow change to happen. It’s long overdue – 2016 will tell us whether Labour is part of that change.
Speaking of which, guess who turned up today in the Guardian criticising Corbyn for not following ‘Labour’s traditional values’?
That’s right – Mr Mendacious himself – Peter Mandelson.
I thought it was Blair and Mandelson who got rid of the traditional Clause 4 – not Corbyn!!?
Why oh why will not even the Labour grandees focus on the real problem for the country – unfettered Tory neo-liberalism?
Whilst in London we visited Highgate Cemetery East and there – quietly – was Philip Gould’s grave at the side of the main path – I did not know he was interred there.
I wonder what he would make of all of this? And yes – I know he is dead (deserving of respect) and that he died too young and bravely – but would he consider any liability for the state of the Labour party or of politics now? And what would he make of those so turned off by politics and who do not vote? Was he really a democrat? Was he really political – or just a salesman who could peddle anything as long as he got the pitch right?
And then we came to Karl Marx’s grave and it was very busy around there. There were those who obviously thought Marx obnoxious; a chap from Trinidad and Tobago who was on holiday with relations in Leeds had travelled down to London for the day just to see the grave because he said that ‘Marx had been proven right’ about the nature of capitalism.
It felt to me that some concepts endure better than others because they are simply better – and not just a matter of how well presented they are or inclusive of self-centred focus groups.
When even the Guardian portrays you of all people as vain and resentful for not becoming a fully paid up advisor of the Labour party then you know that our media are just not able to articulate the truth anymore about anything to be honest.
And we will all be much poorer in the long run for this failure.