They depravity of Johnson’s political claims is becoming ever more apparent. The latest is that he is heading a Rooseveltian New Deal. This is pure
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Debunking the ‘deficit myth’
This BBC video of Stephanie Kelton explaining MMT is great. I just can’t embed it. So please get to it via this Tweet: Why we
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The coup going on right now…in the country where you are
Jonathan Powell was a British diplomat who went on to become Tony Blair’s Chief of Staff throughout his entire time in Downing Street. He has
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Build Back Better
I co-signed this statement issued by Compass today. You can too. Build Back Better As we emerge from this crisis, now is the time to
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Nothing less than a total overhaul will save accounting from itself
Wirecard is a German company managing card payments for customers. It has gone into insolvency. That’s because it has admitted, as the FT has noted,
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The Tory version of The Forgotten Man
I did some reading around the issue of The Forgotten man – who is, apparently, to the focus of government attention according to the new
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On LBC last night talking about the economic programme we need now to beat a recession
I was on LBC last night and got several minutes of almost uninterrupted opportunity to discuss what needs to be done to tackle the economic
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We do not need tax increases or spending cuts: what we need is a commitment to full employment come what may, which is an option the government could choose, but won’t
We are, at present, in the very early stages of the worst recession that this country will have seen for almost a century. No one
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YouGov have not got modern monetary theory as yet, so they’re asking the public all the wrong questions on the recession to come
This is depressing: If measures are needed to be put in place to reduce the deficit, which best fits your view? Mainly tax rises: 47%
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