Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of
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On Saturday, I spoke at the Scottish Currency Group conference in Dunfermline via weblink. I was asked to talk about money, but slightly to my
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The UK is stuck in a self-inflicted fiscal trap. Larry Elliott, former Guardian Economics Editor and my co-author in the Green New Deal, joins me
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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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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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Rachel Reeves says the UK needs tax rises to balance her budget. That’s simply wrong. Tax doesn’t fund government spending: spending comes first. Raising taxes
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We’re told that competition makes everything better — cheaper, fairer, more efficient. But when it comes to banks, that’s a myth. Six giant institutions dominate
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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RobertJ asked a question on this blog yesterday that goes to the heart of how I believe that we should think about belonging, identity, and
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