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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Planning the economy around a government surplus can never represent a strategic vision
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023I noted an article by Martin Wolf in the FT last week on this blog. In that article, Wolf argued that the UK needed a
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There is a way out of stagnation. Its not hard to work out. It could be delivered. But first of all we have to care about each other. Is that possible?
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023Martin Wolf has a column in the FT this morning that is headlined: He does not answer the question as to what the solution is.
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With a growing threat from Trump what the world needs now are champions of democracy. In this country, we have Keir Starmer.
Thursday, November 9th, 2023Martin Wolf had an article in the FT earlier this week in which he asked what the impact of a second Trump presidency of the
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