I am proud to write for a newspaper – The National – that puts this on its front page. Most of the media is ignoring
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There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary. Not because there’s no demand. But because the
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The Guardian reports this morning that: The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports.
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I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something
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For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen,
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Rachel Reeves will not fix Britain today. So I’ve published my Alternative Budget for 2025 — a complete plan to end austerity, rebuild public services,
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In this podcast, I talk with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax Justice Network, about whether Britain can escape the final stage of a decades-long
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I was asked over the weekend if I would create a glossary entry on hot money, and given that this seemed both appropriate and not
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 In 1993, the economist Richard Auty coined the term “resource curse” to describe the paradox that countries with abundant natural resources often grow more slowly
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