The government says there’s a “black hole” in the public finances — but the black hole is really in our hospitals, schools, and local councils,
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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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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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I did this podcast with Xander Elliards of The National on Monday (and I wish they’d told me my lens was dirty: I had no
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Nationalism can be a politics of care — about belonging, culture, and democracy — or a politics of control, built on fear and exclusion. In
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This comes from The Guardian this morning: An “ugly” racism reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s has become worryingly commonplace again in modern Britain and
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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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Thomas Piketty called it the most important formula in economics: it’s R > G , which means that the rate of return on capital (R)
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What if we designed society before we knew who we’d be in it? Philosopher John Rawls asked that question in A Theory of Justice, and
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