As the Guardian notes this morning: Peter Mandelson has said he has resigned his membership of the Labour party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment”
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What do we want? Care or fascism? That’s the economic choice we now face
This video argues that we are facing a stark economic and political choice: fascism or care. Fascism is not history. It is happening now. It
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What if Trump suspends US democracy?
G. Elliot Morris is a psephologist (polling analyst) in the USA. As he noted in a post I was notified of overnight: Democratic candidate Taylor
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Guess who wins from racism?
As the FT noted yesterday: Companies including Palantir and Deloitte have collectively reaped more than $22bn from contracts linked to Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.
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Labour: the friend of cheats, crooks, and conpeople
As AccountingWEB (of which I was for a decade at the start of the century a contributing editor) noted yesterday: The expected timeline for small
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Trump’s actions do not sell Farage’s narratives
We have suffered the curse of racist politics in this country for too long. Racism is bad enough, and too common. Racist politics is worse.
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Neoliberalism was not an accident
Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades. In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax
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Reform: a care home for failed Tories
In news that will surprise precisely no one, Suella Braverman has defected to Reform, a party her husband had, I think, been a member of
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Are we near a tipping point?
Are we near a tipping point? I think this question has to be asked because so much of what is going on in the world
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