2025 was a disastrous year — economically, politically and morally. But the consequences of that failure are only just beginning to arrive. In this video,
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Fools and their money are still being parted
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote suggesting that investors should beware the end of December. Why? The UK stock market peaked on 30 December
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Redfining capital as the basis for a politics of care: a task for 2026
As regular readers here will know, I referred to the idea of a “politics of care” quite a lot during 2025, and I have no
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Down time
It was a busy weekend, mainly of socialising, and if I largely left the blog alone, that was the decision I made. Sometimes it is
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The politics of light
Light is often treated as something sentimental at Christmas. That is a mistake. Light is not decoration. It is understanding, care, energy and life itself.
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Who is stealing the light?
Burnout is not a personal failure. It is the result of an economic system that steals time, daylight and energy from our lives. In this
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Economic questions: the Karl Polanyi 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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Light, entropy and why care keeps society alive
Everything tends towards decay unless energy is applied. That is not ideology, it is physics. In this video, I explore light through the lens of
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Boxing Day waders
A wintry Boxing Day birding session at Welney produced this. Of the three waders in the centre of the picture there is a redshank at
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