There are moments when I think that we are just about, at best, clinging on by our fingertips to the concept of civilisation. There are
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Who is exploiting us? Large companies, banks, and landlords are, and not the people our politicians love to blame. This is the audio version: This
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Neoliberalism has dominated economics and politics for 45 years, despite being based on nothing more than myths, falsehoods, and fantasies that should have discredited the
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I liked this from Robert Reich this morning: Words matter. When the media points out Trump’s “potential conflicts of interest,” as it has in recent
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As I note in my comment article in The National this morning: THE chaos US president Donald Trump has created has made it incredibly easy for people
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In Australia, Labor won the general election this weekend by opposing anything that looked vaguely aligned with the thinking of Trump. Mark Carney did the
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Young people, most especially, are struggling to find reasons for hope in the world neoliberal politics has created, and who can blame them? This is
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Reform says that it will cut the spending of the local authorities it now controls. I asked ChatGPT to provide a breakdown of English local
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Labour’s been knocked for six. The Tories face oblivion. And Reform are threatening politics as we know it. Did Thursday represent a political earthquake? This
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