As if to prove that everyone in the media spends half their lives looking at data, The National sent me a summary of my most-read
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Inequality is a political choice – and the UK keeps choosing it
The World Inequality Report 2026 opens with a sentence that should trouble anyone who cares about democracy or economic justice: Inequality is a political choice.
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If every country is in debt, where’s the money?
Most people believe the national debt is a danger to our economy. In this video, I explain why that story is wrong. National debt isn’t
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Why do we need a politics of care?
Why do we need a politics of care? This is why we do: More than one in 20 people are homeless in parts of London,
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Breakfast, coffee and some paracetamol
I had some plans for posting this morning, but after three days of far too little sleep because of the impact of a cold or
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How to prepare for a crash
What can ordinary people do if the financial crash many economists fear is coming? In this video, I explain some practical, calm, and sensible steps
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Just work out what you want to do
I did a video yesterday on campaigning and why most of it is just moaning. I put up a poll on YouTube asking why most campaigns fail.
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Economic questions: the James Tobin question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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New glossary entry: Spahn taxation
Of all the concepts I noted in my post on making capital controls work this morning, the one likely to be most unfamiliar is Spahn
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