I was troubled by Grace Blakeley’s accusation that I am working to: make the existing capitalist system work more effectively, rather than …. effect a
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Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money?
There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for. The capacity to create money is the most
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Is the new politics about to be born?
I was talking to an old friend, Tony Groves, of the Echo Chamber podcast, based in Dublin, on Friday, largely because I was recording a
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Rachel Reeves: time to go
Throughout the weekend, I kept asking myself whether I should write a blog post about Rachel Reeves misrepresenting the economic background to her Budget, but
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Why the UK budget system is broken — and how to fix it
Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic
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