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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Was Guy Fawkes as bad as history makes out?
Every year on the 5th of November, people across Britain light bonfires, set off fireworks, and burn effigies of a man who died more than
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Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next
The Guardian has suddenly decided that Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments about Black and Asian people on television lets them describe what she said as
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It’s time to end elite entitlement
At the weekend, The Guardian reported an interview in which Kamala Harris said: I am not done. … I have lived my entire career as
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