We went goosing this morning. I am not sure goosing is a word, but it is in the Murphy household. Geese are high on our
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We are just one working week into 2026, but it feels very much longer. The US has invaded a country illegally and seized its president.
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A growing number of high-paid professionals in the UK are choosing to work fewer hours. Some commentators claim this signals economic weakness, declining productivity, or
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We posted this YouTube short this lunchtime: This is the transcript: A century ago, the Irish polymath and playwright George Bernard Shaw said that “Reasonable
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I cannot be alone in thinking that 2026 is already proving to be a very long year. The killing of Renee Good by ICE operatives
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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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There is a worrying and increasingly unquestioned assumption in British political debate at present, which is that higher defence spending is unavoidable, and that it
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David Lucas, a commentator on his blog, offered this doggerel in a comment, and then gave me permission to share it more widely: We, the
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Artificial intelligence is not virtual, clean, or weightless. It has a rapidly escalating physical cost in electricity, water, and emissions—and ordinary people will pay the
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