There is much discussion of the causes of what is being called ‘far-right’ rioting in the UK this morning. No one is, unfortunately, calling it
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Is growth that is dependent on trashing the planet worth having?
Yesterday’s IT outage was serious and debilitating. It clearly had an effect on some readers of this blog because traffic was well down early in
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Saving for intergenerational solidarity
My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in The Guardian this morning: Nesrine Malik is right that
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Will Labour restore the right to protest?
I posted this on Twitter yesterday: Protestors seeking to draw attention to the desperate plight of our planet have been sent to prison for four
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Shouldn’t we be celebrating recent record national savings?
There is new national debt data out today. This was my reaction to the announcement from the Office for National Statistics on Twitter: I am
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Why growth, Rachel Reeves?
Starmer: putting himself in the history books at cost to us all
As the Guardian has noted: UK fruit and vegetable production has plummeted as farms have been hit by extreme weather. They have added: The country
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Labour should be putting the UK’s savings to use instead of turning to foreign capital
The Bank of England has reported this morning that: Household deposits with banks and building societies rose by £5.3 billion in May. This was driven
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I can’t wait for the 5th of July
In this morning’s video, I argue that after 5 July, the hard work begins. Then, we have to work out how truly socially transformative ideas
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