In 2018, Minouche (or, more formally, Nemat) Shafik wrote in an article entitled ‘A New Social Contract’, published by the International Monetary Fund, of which
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We talk about food poverty and fuel poverty, but almost never about rent poverty. Yet rent is now the biggest driver of inequality in Britain.
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This image is from Twitter, yesterday: As The Guardian reported: Five people have been arrested at a protest in London where a group of masked
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I posted this on Twitter this morning: Starmer is enabling fascism through his cowardice and acceptance of Farage’s framing. He has power and will not
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A US-based writer called Chris Armitage has noted in his Substack that: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once.
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The UK doesn’t just have one economy: it has three. They are the real economy, the sustainable economy, and the monetary economy. However, the government
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Robert Reich wrote a post yesterday on why he cannot retire, and it resonated with me because quite often someone suggests I should slow down.
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Introduction I rarely write blog posts as long as this one. I am rarely as passionate about a subject as I am about the provision
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The Guardian’s letter page this morning has two responses to an article by Dr Faiza Shaheen, who is now the director of Tax Justice UK,
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