As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than
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On 15 December, I published a video under the  title What will happen if economic growth has come to an end?. In turn, this explored
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John Plnder, in the Financial Times today, has asked whether public debt in the developed world has become “fundamentally unmanageable”. The argument runs as follows:
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Christmas is economically strange. We stop working. Spending surges. Profit stops mattering. Time off is normalised. Family and care come first. And we accept all
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Is the NHS really in crisis because of money — or because we are asking the wrong question altogether? In this video, I argue that
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Zack Polanski published a new edition of his podcast last night, in which he is in conversation with James Meadway, about whom I have written
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Is tax theft? Many people think so — and that belief shapes how we vote, how we treat public services, and how democracy functions. In
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Yesterday’s poll that we posted on YouTube received a surprisingly large response. 16,000 people had voted by early this morning, and the message was clear:
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According to the United Nations’ World Inequality Report, inequality results from deliberate political and institutional choices. This video explains what that means for the UK
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