This video is the fourth in our series on wealth — and the second asking a crucial question: Why are the wealthy wealthy? In this
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UK democracy on the brink
We published this YouTube short video this afternoon: Reform is polling at 34%. That’s more than Labour or the Tories. In this video, I explore
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Labour is failing voters
I am not sure anyone has clamoured for a lowering of the voting age to 16, as Labour is now promising. I have heard vast
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Whether Labour likes it or not, we will move on
George Monbiot’s article on the nationalisation of water in The Guardian yesterday concluded with what I think was an exquisitely crafted and profoundly poignant paragraph,
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The one thing the BBC is now really good at is shooting itself in the foot
The National posted this article from Lesley Riddoch today. I am inclined to call Lesley a friend, although we have only met very occasionally over
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Israel’s genocide economy
We have the right to use plain words to express plain sentiment in a plain way
I share this report from The Guardian because I think it is necessary to do so: Armed police threatened a peaceful protester with arrest under
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When will the crash happen? Soon enough for Reeves to take the blame.
I was asked yesterday by someone I met whether I believed we were facing the risk of another financial meltdown on the scale of 2008,
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Wealth series 3: Why are the wealthy so wealthy?
In this third video in our series on the wealthy, I explore why the comfortably wealthy in the UK — those with £3 million or
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