The centre cannot hold. The question is, what comes next?
Monday, July 8th, 2024The far-right has been held at bay in France. Having been given due warning of an impending disaster, centre and left-wing parties cooperated to ensure
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The Bank of England used the inflation crisis to boost the wealth of the wealthy, but did nothing at all to control inflation
Friday, May 10th, 2024The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee put out the most extraordinary report yesterday in support of its decision to keep interest rates at 5.25%,
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Markets might use the risk of war as excuse for another bout of profiteering.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024My discussion on the economics of war yesterday appears to have been timely. Everyone now seems to be addressing the issue. Martin Wolf had a
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We need voices in the mainstream media who are willing to call out fascism
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024Martin Wolf has this to say in today’s FT: Are we witnessing the return of fascism? Is Donald Trump, to take the most important contemporary
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Apologies for absence
Monday, March 18th, 2024There are a number of themes I might have posted about this morning. Martin Wolf has an article worth commenting on in the FT. I
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First they came for Just Stop Oil
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024Occasionally I read something I think worth sharing in full on this blog. I did yesterday. It was on the blog of an old friend,
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Business as usual is not just failing government in the UK; it is also failing business itself
Monday, February 5th, 2024There is a tendency to say that everything that is going wrong in our society is down to government underfunding, and then to blame neoliberal
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This country does not need a smaller state, but a more active one
Sunday, February 4th, 2024Sometimes I have to agree with Martin Wolf at the FT. This afternoon he has written this: As Nicholas Stern has noted in the FT,
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The lessons to learn from Martin Luther King
Wednesday, January 10th, 2024This article to mark Martin Luther King Day in the USA, which is on 15 January, was written by an old friend of mine, Ben
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