As the FT notes today, in another excellent article by John Burns-Murdoch: In the UK [the number of] … young people who are increasingly disengaged
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Is the BBC suffering a far-right attack?
Is there a coup underway at the BBC? When journalists are punished for minor mistakes while truth-tellers are silenced, that’s not accountability — that’s control.
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Does the coup at the BBC matter?
Is there a coup going on at the BBC, as many of its staff suggested in a meeting yesterday? Of course there is. Not only
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The US right wing is devouring itself
The Financial Times has reported that Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, which is the most influential conservative think-tank in the United States, is facing
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The unaffordability of Trump
Donald Trump’s Great Gatsby–style party at Mar-a-Lago reveals everything about modern America — excess at the top, hunger at the bottom, and the deliberate cruelty
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MMT v fascism
Ignorance about money is set to become an even more important feature of UK politics, it would seem. As the FT has reported: A former
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Mamdani’s win will sweep away the deadwood of the supposed neoliberal left-wing
It was not long ago that I had cause to suggest that Plaid Cymru’s victory over Reform and Labour in the Caerphilly by-election was a
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Who owns companies, and why?
A reader on this blog recently asked a question that goes to the heart of how our economy now works. It was simple: who are
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How can the economy survive when most wages are too low?
The Financial Times has reported this morning that senior figures in the City are now complaining that the minimum wage is rising so close to
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