I was asked on Saturday why I had chosen to talk about the politics of care rather than the politics of well-being. My questioner appeared
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As I anticipated and always presumed would happen, Keir Starmer gave the USA permission to use UK bases to support its attack on Iran yesterday.
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The FT has reported this morning in an email: Oil prices surged as much as 13 per cent as the widening conflict in the Middle
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I noted this in an email last night. You can see the source: A number of thoughts follow. First, who is questioning the value of
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Most people think tax pays for government spending. It doesn’t. In a modern monetary economy, governments that issue their own currency spend first and tax
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Some blog posts I write on a Sunday afternoon can wait until Monday morning, and then there are those that cannot. This post falls into
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Oil prices are soaring right now. The Straits of Hormuz are shut. The Suez Canal might be. These actions have consequences. One will be inflation.
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I gather real estate in Dubai is going cheap today. Netanyahu, Trump and Starmer really should think through the consequences of their actions. But look
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The Guardian reported this yesterday: The Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a
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