Martin Wolf of the FT said this week that only economic growth can save democracy. Yet his economics serves only the wealthy. When workers are
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The state of right wing thinking on the economy
It’s important to be reminded what right-wing thinking about Britain really is every now and again. The reason is that in recent decades, where right-wing
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The market is not the solution to our housing problems
The FT is annoying me, again, this morning with an article by someone called Neil Hudson that opens with this: There is a line about
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Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
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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A narrative for a Scottish currency
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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Larry Elliott on fiscal failure, technological anxiety and cautious optimism
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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Racism is now being called out: calling out fascism must be next
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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It’s time to end elite entitlement
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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Why taxing idle wealth is the only tax rise Britain needs
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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