This was posted in the Financial Times over the weekend but remains well worth sharing because of its broader significance: Parts of South Africa’s largest city
Read the full article…
Apologies for absence
There are a number of themes I might have posted about this morning. Martin Wolf has an article worth commenting on in the FT. I
Read the full article…
Labour needs major constitutional reform on its agenda because the likelihood that the monarchy will survive its term of office looks to be low
I did not notice this yesterday, so let me make good the omission now: We have all got used to accepting the fate of the
Read the full article…
What is the point of power if it is not to help the most vulnerable and least well off, which there is no sign that Labour will do?
As the Observer noted yesterday: Schools are finding beds, providing showers for pupils and washing uniforms as child poverty spirals out of control, headteachers from
Read the full article…
Why are their Lordships so frightened of modern monetary theory?
I have already noted the bizarre evidence submitted by Joe Stiglitz to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. Now, I have been tipped off
Read the full article…
The Tories have gone nuclear
I liked this from Adam Payne at Politics Home this morning: Many Conservative MPs will remember this “bleak” week as the moment when they truly gave
Read the full article…
It seems that we live in unprecedented times
I suspect that many readers here might have already seen this polling result, published yesterday: Every time I think the Tories can do no worse,
Read the full article…
Joe Stiglitz really should not talk about modern monetary theory when he so obviously has no clue about what it actually says
I have not had time to read all the evidence submitted to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on the sustainability of the UK’s national
Read the full article…
The abuse of power is profoundly unappealing. It would seem that Starmer enjoys it.
Angela Rayner has made it clear she wants Diane Abbott back in the Labour fold, with the whip restored. So has Ed Balls. I doubt
Read the full article…

Buy me a coffee!
