I was working with my son, James, earlier this week, explaining my approach to writing a social media post, and most especially, an opinion piece.
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Can King Donald deliver?
Donald Trump is now very clearly of the opinion that he can do whatever he wants in the world, constrained only, as he said recently,
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2026 looks as if it will be a brutal year
As the FT notes this morning: The governor of the Bank of England has warned there are “substantial risks” of spillovers to UK financial markets
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Why Europe must act now: the post-NATO world has begun
We are living through fascism. That is the first message of this video. We are therefore living through unprecedented chaos. That is the second message.
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Don’t ignore UK unemployment: it’s the breeding ground for domestic fascism
Do you remember Rachel Reeves and issues as mundane as how badly she is managing the UK economy? I almost look on moaning about such
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Does MMT apply to the Euro?
I was asked this question yesterday: One point that I find difficult, is how does MMT apply to the Euro? If the Euro is produced
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Isn’t it time to stop pretending and get off the fence?
It was all going so well for Keir Starmer. One prevarication has followed another, before time has been spent sitting on a fence, after which
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You should never accommodate fascists
If you are 67, as I am, you grew up in the shadow of World War II, even though, of course, it was well and
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Is Trump evil?
Trump’s threat to Greenland is an emergency, and it must be treated as one. This is not just a territorial dispute. It is a deliberately
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