Ed Miliband was another minister taking complete and utter bollocks nonsense in interviews he gave yesterday in his case on the energy price increase. His
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Labour are charlatans
I was heavily involved in debates on development for well over a decade. The whole purpose of the Tax Justice Network, of which John Christensen
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Are the Tories lost in space?
The Tories were once the party of reliable, uncontentious and boring middle England. Now Kemi Badenoch claims they are the saviours of a form of
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It’s time to change UK energy pricing
I originally wrote this post as a Twitter thread in 2022. It was then posted on this blog and was checked by energy expert Mike
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20% are fascist, but 80% aren’t
The far-right has doubled its support in Germany. But they’re no more popular than the left, and 80% did not vote for fascists. What are
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Giving a damn
I think Jane Fonda hit a nail on the head last night when accepting a Lifetime Achievement award from the US Screen Actors Guild last
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Getting modern monetary theory right
I wrote a piece that might have upset some supposed modern monetary theory (MMT) supporters yesterday, making clear by doing so that I thought they
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Trump’s new rules
Nesrine Malik puts forward an interesting idea in the Guardian this morning when suggesting that the whole basis of Trump’s policy agenda is to ask
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Trump is making words meaningless
Unless politicians mean what they say we get a world where nothing can be relied on and chaos rules. Trump’s disdain for the truth is
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