We have suffered the curse of racist politics in this country for too long. Racism is bad enough, and too common. Racist politics is worse.
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Neoliberalism was not an accident
Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades. In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax
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Labour’s audit failure
I have the Instagram post out Labour’s audit failure on The Canary site this afternoon: View this post on Instagram A post shared
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The problem with AI is it just does not care
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic and one of the most influential figures shaping the development of advanced artificial intelligence, has published an essay
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The biggest shocks of 2026 have yet to happen
The FT has a headline this morning that says: This hardly feels like news. The new element of this, which supposedly justifies the special report,
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What is happening with gold?
As the Guardian reported last night: The price of gold has jumped above $5,000 an ounce for the first time as Donald Trump’s chaotic policies and
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Are you the media now?
People keep asking me what they can do to help change the conversation about economics, politics, and power. The answer is simpler, and more important,
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Reform: a care home for failed Tories
In news that will surprise precisely no one, Suella Braverman has defected to Reform, a party her husband had, I think, been a member of
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Crass news story of the day
The Telegraph has posted the crass news story of the day in one of its morning emails, saying: Graduates claiming benefits surge to 700,000 Hundreds
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