I suspect Keir Starmer was not happy that President Macron of France said this to both Houses of Parliament yesterday, referring to Gaza: As we
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The fundamental pension contract
Most people don’t understand how pensions really work. Not politicians, not City insiders, and probably not you. In this video, I explain why pensions aren’t
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The corporations aiding genocide
I never imagined I would read a report like this in my lifetime, and yet it is in The Guardian, is corroborated elsewhere, and it
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Spitting Image got it right
If you can watch it, this is worth thirty seconds of your time: For the record, this clip from Spitting Image dates back to 1989!
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Book updates
A couple of months ago, I noted that I had been approached by a major publisher who asked me to write a book. That one
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Is value destroyed when share prices fall?
A commenter on my recent blog post – Where does money go in a crash? – offered a reply from their vantage point as an
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We need a politics that meets needs
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or
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The wealth series: Do we need the wealthy?
We’re starting a new series on this channel: unpacking the myths around wealth. From who the wealthy are, how they got their money, to whether
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Benefits, the tax gap and a podcast
I did this podcast-style interview for The National in Scotland last Friday, talking about the economics of benefits and the tax gap, in particular: I
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